From hearts and flowers to erotic obsession, from contemporary crimes of passion to the savage gentility of the Victorian age, here is a love and death in infinite variety, a unique and unprecedented collection of original, never-before-published short stories all written by bestselling authors. Sixteen acclaimed writers-eight men and eight women-offer vastly different perspectives on love, murder, and the opposite sex, which prove that all passion lasts a lifetime-however brief that life my be…