Twisted – Meet the MCs & Grab a Drink
Mel narrowed her gaze. They didn't know anything about this girl. What if she was some informant for the police? What if she could bring their whole lives crashing down? Mel had more to think about than just herself. Blaine, Jackie, and the other girls would be implicated if the police ever got word of how she kept so many women employed and off the streets.
Melanie Parker is an unscrupulous leader of a less-than-legal high-end escort service and an attitude to match it.
She works closely with her associate, Blaine, to keep the girls in their employ safe and willing.
Mel specializes in finding the perfect group of girls for the best kind of dirty party. She takes no bullshit and expects the same from her employees.
While she has a rigid exterior, she holds a special place in her heart for all the woman who join her operation and trust her to protect them.
There was a knock at Ryan's office door. He looked up and saw Archer standing in the doorway with two coffees in his hands. Ryan smiled at his partner of ten years.
"You brought me coffee?"
"You look like you could use it."
In the years they'd worked together, Archer had only brought him coffee a handful of times. Always on hard cases and always when Ryan wasn't sleeping. The man could read him like a book. Ryan was grateful for it. Archer was the person he was closest to in his life and had been ever since Lilian passed away.
Detective Ryan Boone is a workaholic, dad-joke enthusiast, investigator extraordinaire with a tragic history.
He and his partner, Brad Archer, are the crime fighting duo featured in Twisted. Brought into a convoluted crime that started around a seemingly straight-forward jewelry-heist, Ryan finds himself in the middle of a twisted conspiracy that he struggles to make sense of.
Ryan is met with cocky lawyers, difficult superiors and criminals he just can't located. As he solves one clue, another threatens to unravel the mystery entirely.
He's got a good idea who did it, but how exactly one can be found guilty when the evidence doesn't add up.
Brielle turned to the wall, looking at the range of photos. She reached up and touched one from her eighth birthday. Her hair was up in pigtails and she wore a silver tiara. She didn't smile, only stared at the camera with round green eyes. She didn't look sad … just lost.
Meet Brielle Jeffries an ignored heiress with too much free time, an addictive personality and stalker keeping too close an eye on her.
Abducted when she was only six years old, Brielle has been in and out of care centers for most of her life. Clearly traumatized and poorly cared for, Brielle has been medicated and suffered a variety of break downs.
Now determined to remain free from the confines of the clinic she'd frequented, Brielle keeps the strange happenings she notices under wraps.
But even without the help of her therapist, Brielle knows that something is very wrong.
Dorian appeared at Mel's side with a martini in hand. "Dirty, if I remember correctly."
"You do." Mel took the drink from him.
- 2 1/2 ounces gin
- 1/2 ounce dry vermouth
- 1/2 ounce olive brine
- Garnish: 2 to 4 olives
- Add the gin, vermouth and olive brine to a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until well-chilled.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Garnish with a skewer of olives.
"I'm Brielle, by the way." She sat on one of the bar stools.
He'd moved around the bar, unclicking locks then mixing a drink. She hadn't even ordered anything. When he finished, he plopped the drink down in front of her. She knew it immediately—an amaretto sour.
"I know," the man said. "You told me. I told you I was Gary."
Brielle winced as her eyes were still fixed on the drink. She reached for it and scrunched her nose as the smell of the amaretto hit her. Then she set it back down.
- 1 ½ ounces amaretto
- ½ ounce bourbon whiskey
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon simple syrup
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- Garnish: Cocktail cherry, lemon slice
- Add the amaretto, bourbon, lemon juice, syrup, and bitters to a cocktail shaker without ice. Shake for 15 seconds.
- Add the ice to the cocktail shaker. Shake again for 30 seconds.
- Strain the drink into a glass. Add garnish if you wish.
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