Jim Moriarty's employees have to be managed by somebody, and his two top lieutenants are Sebastian Moran, sniper extraordinaire, bodyguard, and head of staff, and Lorna Harrison, master manipulator, spy, and alcoholic. She's got an addictive personality and he's got intimacy issues. Against all reason, they fall together anyway.

At first they hadn't talked much. After one shot, he'd seemed apt to leave, yet he hadn't. Booze was good at doing that, at making even the hardest of men open up in some way or another. xxGaara smutxx