When a familiar face comes back into her life, Sakura makes a decision that unwittingly unites their causes. She finds herself playing a dangerous game of give and take with a man who makes no promises but always pays his debts. [SasoSaku. Sequel to Schadenfreude and Aces & Eights.]

AU 5 years after ACoK Sandor stops at an inn to wait out the storm and buys himself an evening of entertainment, but he gets more than he bargained for.

All Loki wants is revenge-the Cube may be his key. But when he hides his identity to get info from Jane Foster, something inside him shifts. And when the Cube is stolen, Loki must choose between vengeance, and the woman he fears he can never have.

“Tell me, Miss Haruno, have you ever been with a man?” And so begins her sexual awakening in the name of art.