Shawn has a mission to kidnap Dr. Kayleigh Lauderdale, a woman who has been working on a super secret project and who also has a cure for what's killing the city's witches. She is the daughter of Shawn's sworn enemy, a man who he is determined to see dead, by his hands, of course. He's hoping this will ease his pain and complete his need for vengeance for his family's horrible demise. Things get complicated when he's instantly attracted to Dr. Lauderdale, and next he just can't seem to stop imagining his hands all over her. The feelings are mutual. Except they each have an agenda, and with Kayleigh being stronger than Shawn had anticipated, he's going to have to fight just to keep her in his control. Will they be able to act on their growing feelings for each other, while a war is waged between them, or will they have to let each other go

Raw, intense, fast-paced like a lightning bolt that runs through your body. The characters are perfectly flawed, a real Romeo and Juliet romance, torn between two worlds and a family feud of sorts. What's there to do with all of the violence and fighting but fall in love? I was rooting for Shawn and Kayleigh early on in the book, and the scenes were so visceral, each stab of pain so real, that I had to put ONE FOR THE WICKED down at times to show myself that I wasn't the one getting injured during the action scenes. Ms. Cooper is a talented writer with the chops to pull of the tension and intensity with grace, smoothly flowing into a bang up ending. Read her work, folks. That's all I can say. Her writing style has the right balance of word choice to pull you in, hooking claws in deep, keeping you from putting the book down. The witty snark in the dialogue left me smirking, and maybe even giving a snort or two. Old Seattle is a dark, decaying sludge hole that she painted well. There is a stark contrast between the grungy city below and the sparkling city above in New Seattle, and it worked well to mirror the differences between Shawn and Kayleigh, again, driving my desire for them to be together.

Opposites attract, right?

There's some super steamy sex scenes that are peppered around small but tense moments of closeness. The pacing is great, and the storyline that drives Shawn and his team was wrought with determination and old vengeance, pushing it constantly along. ONE FOR THE WICKED is a fantastic finale for the series that deserves to be reread time and again.