[Made 02] • The Maddest Obsession

_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._