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Violence
A lot
Violence in the drug crime world; a kidnapping and its escalating danger
Language
Some
Moderate language in a New Orleans crime register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic content that develops in a morally complicated context
Substance Use
Some
Heavy drug and alcohol use as part of the criminal environment depicted
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A man committing a crime out of a grief that the law has no answer for, the Stockholm dynamic handled with more complexity than usual, New Orleans as a city where the usual rules blur
What this book is about
New Orleans vice detective Burke Basile watches a vicious drug lord walk free on a technicality argued by defense attorney Pinkie Duvall. Consumed by rage, Burke hatches a plan: kidnap Pinkie's beautiful wife Remy and hold her as leverage. What begins as extortion becomes something more complicated when Burke realizes the marriage he's disrupting is not what it appeared, and when Remy begins to understand the man who has taken her. Sandra Brown sets a morally dark romance against New Orleans carnival season.
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kidnapping as central premise
adult romantic content in a morally complicated context
drug crime violence
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