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État de Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, 29 ans, est docker. Intelligent, loyal et réservé, il n'a jamais vraiment trouvé sa place au sein du clan des Irlandais qui règne sur une partie de la ville. Son rêve : fuir loin de cet endroit où il n'a pas d'avenir. Mais lorsque Paulie Moretti, mafieux d'une famille italienne jusque-là amie, s'affiche avec sa nouvelle conquête, Hélène de Troie des temps modernes, Danny se retrouve mêlé à une guerre sans merci à laquelle il ne peut échapper.

Special Agent Mallory Channing of the National Bureau of Investigation has to fight every inch of the way to forge a career in that entrenched, male-dominated bureaucracy. Beautiful, intelligent, and well-educated, she’s determined to prove herself by volunteering for the most dangerous assignments. But nothing in her training can prepare her for the peril she faces when she finds herself taken far from civilization and deposited into a remote, barbarous world – one ruled by strong, ruthless men.

Two novellas about men obsessed with women who are both captive and captivating. “Breedlowe’s Obsession,” that’s what the old boys called it, most often followed by a nudge, and a knowing wink. But they would never know, or even suspect, the lengths to which that obsession will be carried, once their former classmate has acquired the necessary wealth and considerable leisure to fully indulge his insatiable appetite for feminine beauty.