Thomas Cummings

Blue Valentine Thomas Cummings

It was supposed to be a night to get drunk, a night to get stoned, a night to get laid. But at an after-hours party in a house on the rich side of town, an old acquaintance walks out of the darkness, dragging the past with him. The meeting is no chance affair, and it can only mean that someone is gunning for Nicki Valentine, someone who's used to getting what he wants and who has the means to take it, no matter the cost. In a town where few things are secret and nothing is forgotten, the truth is a game whose rules are exploited by the majority and rewritten by the powerful. Down-and-out, down-and-dirty, Nicki's going to have to figure out the game before she's the one who's played. She's got brains and fight and unhealed rage on her side. She's got her half-brother, Quinn Halliday, at her back. And she's got a wickedly sharp straight razor in her hand. She knows the deck is stacked against her and that she may have only one option left: Cut and run.