The Maddest Obsession

**The Maddest Obsession** is the second book in Danielle Lori's Made Series, althought like it's predecessor, can be read a standalone. First published on February 19, 2019, the book follows Gianna and Christian Allister over the span of a couple of years as obstacles stop the two from forming a relationship.

## Book Description

"She fears the dark.

He rules it.

Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.

Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along.

Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. But perhaps one should never say never . . .

One winter night and their lives intertwine. She hates him—his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye—but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him.

Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She’s chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes.

All along, she doesn’t even know that she’s his—his frustration, his fascination.

His maddest obsession."

## Quotes

*He lifted his foot and began to gently clean the cut himself. I swallowed, stunned quiet I couldn't remember the last time anyone had ever done something like this for me. Not since Mamma. How could a man be so cold, and yet so warm all at once?* (page 83)

"I don't care what you call it. I'm done! With this. With you." (page 148)

"I had every intention of coming back for you three years ago, Gianna. I was in Moscow those two weeks. But if I had known, I would've stopped it. Your marriage. All of this." (page 194)

"You fascinated me, but I began to hate you, too. Because I couldn't stop thinking about you, and I couldn't have you. And you were so fucking beautiful." (page 264)

"When I said this was new to me, I meant I can't fucking think when it comes to you. I shouldn't have said what I said, *malyshka*. The thought of someone touching you, taking you from me.. it makes me fucking crazy.. I promise, I won't say anything like that to you again. We'll figure the rest out. But I'm not letting you go. I can't" (pages 275-276)

"You're the only one I want." (page 276)

"You're the only one I'm sleeping with, Gianna. I thought I'd made that pretty fucking clear." (page 294)

"How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren't in the world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?" (page 307)

"I can't be with you and only get half of you anymore." (page 308)

## Dedication

"For my brother Corey,

You always wanted to do something extraordinary, and you did.

You beat us all to Heaven.

I'll love you forever."

## Characters

* **Christian Allister**

* **Gianna Allister**

* **Nicolas Russo**

* **Elena Russo** (part II)