Gideon Cross was as beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed Eva with the darkest of pleasures. It could never work. But when things went well, it was perfect. Those moments are what keep them hanging on, along with a passion that takes them to the sharpest edge of obsession.

Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary of an Oxygen Thief retools his advertising skills to seduce women online. It's a pursuit that quickly becomes a dangerous fixation, often requiring even more creativity and deception than his award-winning ad campaigns. Dazzling, daunting, and darkly hilarious, this spellbinding sequel is a spectacular indictment of a modern love twisted beyond recognition....

Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.

Describes one woman's journey from sexual abuse in childhood, through believing that sex is love, to a period of sexual addiction and self-destructive behavior, and finally to recovery with the help of a trusted therapist.

Adele appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adele organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap...