"Things like this just don't happen to Maddie Lang! She grew up in a sleepy little English village, so never expected a research trip to Italy would end in her being held captive by the infamous Count Valieri"--P. [4] of cover.
Kidnapped and held for ransom Things like this just don't happen to Maddie Lang! She grew up in a sleepy little English village, so never expected a research trip to Italy would end in her being held captive by the infamous Count Valieri. His price? Her innocence! Holding her under lock and key in his luxurious casa, the count is ready to strike a deal—one with an unconventional method of payment! As much as Maddie wills her traitorous body not to respond, his practiced touch sparks the first flickers of what could become dangerously addictive flames….
Chloe was startled to see Darius in her hometown the day she returned after years away. Seven years ago, eighteen-year-old Chloe experienced her bitter first love with him?he’d taken her to his bedroom on the night of the ball, and the very next morning he’d eloped with someone else! Chloe promised herself never to get close to him again, but Darius kept showing up. Her feelings and her memories from that long-ago night just keep coming back…
It has been three years since her father’s best friend betrayed him, causing her family’s bankruptcy. Courtney can’t help but visit Hunters Court, her childhood home, when she hears it’s up for sale. She wishes her family could live there once more, but when she visits, she sees a man who turns her blood to ice. It's Blair...the nephew of the man who betrayed her father! He says he bought the manor for them to live in together—if she wants to live there, she’ll have to do so with him. Yet he backed her father into a corner and shattered her first love to pieces. Just what can Blair be thinking?
Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Valier elaborates new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment. In doing so, the book discusses: · Teletechnologies, punishment and new collectivities · The cultural politics of victims rights · Discourses on foreigners, crime and diaspora · Terror, the death penalty and the spectacle of violence. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture makes a timely and important contribution to debate on the possibilities of justice in the media age.