three lifelong friends find themselves tangled in a web of love pain and dangerous secrets in this erotic garden of eden taletall dark and handsome danny carlow has always gotten whatever he wants except for the two he wants more than anythinghis best friends lovers paul and eve determined he waits like a snake in the grass poised for the right moment to offer them a temptation too delicious to resistartist eve everton makes the painful decision to leave her true love paul for the siren call of new york city ten years later with her life in shambles she returns when pauls waiting arms arent available eve falls for dannys charm and finds herself a willing accomplice in the dangerous games danny playsformer college football star paul mattling is now a successful attorney with a bright future ahead of him but behind those brilliant blue eyes are secret desires for a taste of the forbidden will he play it safe or give in to danny and eve and bite the applereader advisory not for the faint of heart the pain in this story is vivid and real the emotions even more so haunting and poignant beyond eden presents a darker side of bdsm you might gasp you might cry you might find yourself reading it again and again