Goffredo Parise

"Sweet, sickening, and exhilarating, the smell of blood is the smell of life. A middle-aged psychiatrist has the power to detect it. His young mistress hungers for it. And his wife of twenty years, Silvia, has begun to emanate it - overpoweringly. Silvia's affair with a violent young idler arouses a chilling curiosity in her husband, and his obsession with the details of the relationship fuels fantasies that become self-fulfilling prophecies. The smell of blood grows stronger as he watches his wife enslaved by her lover's passions, and soon the odor of life becomes an omen of death."--Jacket.

Explicit sex keeps you turning the page' GuardianFelicity is a girl with two different sides to her character, each leading two very separate lives. There's Fizz – wild child, drummer in a retro punk band, and car thief. And then there's Felicity – a quiet, polite, and ultra efficient office worker. But as her attractive, controlling boss takes an interest in her, she finds it hard to keep the two parts of her life separate. Will being with Stephen mean choosing between personas and sacrificing so much of her life? But then, it also appears that Stephen has some very peculiar and addictive ideas about sex.