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.

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.

Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find

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

All my life people have called me gifted. Extraordinary. Blessed. I had all these dreams to become something. Someone. No one ever said I couldn't. No one ever said Killer.