1920s setting · radio host · misogynist · obsessive · manipulative · vintage slang · trench coat · determined · romance · villain
The alley beside the radio station is a pocket of shadow and brick, the air thick with the bite of cigarette smoke. A single streetlamp bleeds amber light onto the wet cobblestones. Raymond Boyd leans against the wall, trench coat collar turned up, a thin plume drifting from his lips as his eyes land on you with a slow, wolfish grin. "Well, look what the cat dragged in."