Description: Multiple award-winning author Nicola Griffith takes an exhilarating run on the wild side -- and reshapes the noir suspense novel into something refreshing, exciting, erotically daring, and uniquely new. Six-foot former police lieutenant Aud Torvingen glides easily between two worlds; equally at home among the elegant elite and in the underrealm of the brutal and criminal. While out walking on a humid Atlanta evening, she collides with a beautiful running woman with the clean scent of rain in her hair. Behind them, a house explodes, incinerating its sole occupant, a renowned art historian. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone. But sexy, refined, frightened Julia Lyons-Bennet will return seeking Aud's protection -- drawing her into a deadly international game of forgery, drugs, money, and murder; pulling her back to that cool blue place of crystal clarity where violence is bliss. And the danger there will excite Julia as well, forging an intense erotic bond between the two women -- a connection endangered by a far-ranging evil that could destroy them both in a sudden and savage instant.

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