I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

A hunter in love with his prey.

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.