En un mundo corrupto, el amor es su salvación.
«Líneas firmes. Hombros anchos. Ojos azules, un azul ardiente. Es un hombre aparentemente frío, pero hay algo arde bajo la superficie. Algo que lleva demasiado tiempo cubierto por una capa de hielo. Y quiero verlo derretirse .
Gianna se ríe demasiado fuerte, su ropa es demasiado ajustada y sus tacones demasiado altos. Pero lo que nadie sabe es que todo eso es solo un disfraz para ocultar sus ataques de pánico.
Con un corazón de piedra, fama de corrupto, y una tendencia problemática al control y al número tres, Allister es un agente del FBI que nunca ha sentido la tentación de desviarse de su camino... hasta ahora.
Ambos saben que no tienen manera de ganar, que un final feliz no está en sus cartas pero, a veces, ni los mejores jugadores saben cuándo dejar de apostar.
*Se puede leer de forma independiente.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
She fears the dark. He rules it. Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it's just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. Nobody can crack Gianna's facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along.
Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he'd envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he's never been tempted to veer off course. But perhaps one should never say never . . .
One winter night and their lives intertwine. She hates him--his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye--but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other's looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. Nowhere in Christian's plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She's chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes. All along, she doesn't even know that she's his--his frustration, his fascination. His maddest obsession.
*Can be read as a standalone.