title: Good Girl Wants It Bad: A Novel
author: Perseus
description: An ardent social critic, Bradfield, whose works include <i>Greetings from Earth</i> (1996), turns his discerning eye on the American justice system, a quagmire of quack psychologists, crooked jurists, and celebrity criminals, to paint a mocking portrait of a provocative serial killer. Delilah "Lah" Riordan is a teenage murderer with the guileless soul of a child and the voluptuous body of a Victoria's Secret model. Accused of luring countless men in numerous states to their gruesome deaths, the accomplished femme fatale is currently housed on death row in the corrupt and slipshod West Texas Woman's Penitentiary, where she endures ersatz confrontational therapy and rehabilitation counseling from two smarmy psychologists as amoral and degenerate as she is. To hear her tell it, Lah is just a good ol' gal gone wrong, the by-product of a dysfunctional family and a Svengali-like lover who, she intimates in her best O.J. fashion, is the "real killer." Who knows? She may be right. Bradfield's sardonic satire fairly glimmers with his trademark brand of irascibility and mordant humor. <i>Carol Haggas</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text:  
  
  Ensnaring the ultimate bad boy has its risks…and its rewards. 
   
  It’s not easy being Hades. Constantly guarding his world against other meddling and ambitious deities 
  is stressful work. So when a naked goddess falls directly into his lap, along with the news that he has to 
  shelter her for the indefinite future, he is less than thrilled. Particularly since he can’t help but lust after the 
  beautiful female. 
  The Underworld isn’t the first place Persephone would pick for a vacation—who in their right mind 
  would choose a dark palace over sunshine and flowers? Yet from Hades’s first touch, the dark, sexy ruler 
  fascinates her and has her thinking a fling might be just the thing to while away her confinement. 
  But trust each other? Not a chance. Until the day comes that Persephone must leave…and they realize 
  that trusting each other is the only way they’ll ever meet again. 
   
  Warning: Contains an arrogant god, a stubborn goddess, horny deity nookie and enough supernatural 
  friction t