A WOMAN POSSESSED May is crazy in love with Dan Ferrel. So in love that she risks her life and freedom to spring him from the work gang. But Dan's only thoughts are for Vera. He just wants to feel his hands around her pretty throat. Just once. Because Dan's a lifer. Accused of shooting a man in cold blood, only Dan knows that the killer was hired by Vera to settle the score between them. Now he's traveling the backroads with May, trying to avoid the cops, on his way to find another woman. But while Dan searches for Vera, a work gang guard named Hawkins is searching for him-with a loaded gun he is just itching to use. PRIME SUCKER Hank Ireland is sitting at George's poker table when he starts to become aware of the man's wife. Amy sparks something in him. Later in the kitchen he drunkenly crushes her to him, and is surprised when she responds to his impulsive kiss. The next day Hank still can't stop thinking about her. His own wife, after ten years of marriage, treats him rather coolly, so a passionate kiss is all that it takes. Hank starts questioning his life. And what he decides is that he has to see Amy again-and soon! Which is just fine as far as George is concerned, because he has plans of his own for a sex-starved sucker like Hank.