Julia Sykes

 Ich mag es nicht, berührt zu werden. Ich bin die Hacker-Nerd-Göttin des FBIs. Wenn ich mich hinter meinem Monitor verstecke, habe ich einen sicheren Abstand zu allen anderen; isoliert, mächtig. Kein Mann hat mich bisher berührt....

Valentina verabscheut mich ebenso sehr wie ich sie. Das hält mich aber nicht davon ab, sie zu entführen und sie für mich zu stehlen. Während der Jahre, in denen wir getrennt waren, hat Hass für sie an meinem Herzen gefressen....

Meine süße Gefangene mag es nicht, berührt zu werden. Sie wird es lernen. Sie hat nicht länger das Recht, sich zu weigern. Sie zuckt beim Anblick meines vernarbten Gesichts zusammen, aber die Art und Weise, wie sie wimmert und zittert, lässt in mir ein perverses Vergnügen aufkommen....

There's no point fighting it. I've never met a man as dangerous as Clayton. The sexy FBI agent wants to save my junkie kid brother from the violent Latin Kings and save me from self-destruction....

My father gave me to him as a bargaining chip, as though I was nothing more than flesh to be traded. I hate him for that, and I hate the man who took me....

Ever since we were teenagers, I've denied my desire for Sofia. Despite her father's involvement in running our cocaine empire, Caesar Hernández has carefully sheltered her from the brutal realities of our world....

I try to resist him, but soon we're stealing forbidden hours of lust when no one's watching. It could cost us both our careers, but I can't help myself....

As the most notorious, sadistic drug lord on the West Coast, I thrive on power and control. Valentina loathes me as much as I despise her. That doesn't stop me from kidnapping her, stealing her away for myself....

I don't like to be touched. I'm the hacker-geek-goddess of the FBI. When I'm hiding behind my screen, I'm a safe distance from everyone; isolated, powerful. No man has ever touched me, but when I'm captured by Colombian drug lord Andrés Moreno, I no longer have the right to refuse....

When MI5 agent Finlay MacClellan hunts down Alicia Camden, sparks fly. Obsessive hatred turns to burning lust. Both struggle to use it to their advantage, wielding desire as a weapon....