Corinne Arrowood

Price to Pay Corinne Arrowood

Eli Rosen was a sensible man. He loved his life. It was a good one. If there was one word to describe it, it would have been dependable. Day in and day out he ran the same routine, kids to school then work, nothing much ever changed...same office, same desk and the same people. Even his client base hadn't varied much over time. He'd been planning events as long as he could remember, so it all fell right into place...until that one night, that one fateful night, when she fell, literally, into his life...nothing would ever be the same, his take on life would change forever. Half dead, bludgeoned and beaten within inches of her life she collapsed on the cement floor near the hotel loading dock just as he was calling it a night. Instinct kicked in, he ran to her rescue, and for one brief moment she opened her eyes locking not only to his, but to his very soul, stirring the longs lumbered passion of his being. Within moments the dock looked like a scene taken from some cheap television cop story...sirens, police, paramedics, gawkers and the host of mayhem that seemed attracted to blood, gore and tragedy. To top it off, here he was an innocent bystander thrust into the middle of it all. Little did he know the ride was just beginning. New Orleans was his home, although born in Miami, he had lived in the Big Easy for over twenty years and considered himself as much a native as the next man. This was where his heart was and for all accounts and purposes he knew it like the back of his hand, or so he thought. He was soon to plunge into the other side, Desiree's New Orleans, a side he'd never seen or maybe never wanted to see. His world provided a safe cocoon, protected from the crime regime of Anthony Manducci with it's hired assassins, political puppets, and army of street thugs, such as the likes of Sonny Ramone. No, Desiree's world wasn't captured in the magical nuance of horse drawn carriages, magnolias and moonlight. Her world played more like a never ending nightmare of