"This novel burns like ice," Charles Baudelaire himself once said, and was not mistaken at all, for in the heart of the story a glacier nestles, and there, in the icy flame of perpetual ice, everything burns: Body, soul and feelings. What gives Dangerous relations its peculiar atmosphere is that in its pages the fever of the meat and the most methodical cruelty are awakened; Volatile and fatal: frivolous adventures, torn loves are but the studied movements of a game of chess between two consummate libertines, Viscount Valmont and Marquise de Merteuil, accomplices and former lovers, two powerful allies and fearsome opponents . Valmont and Merteuil know how to move like no other among society games, which are nothing more than intrigue of power, and they know perfectly the intricate web of interests and lies that govern the rooms and the bedrooms. In the ashes of desire, both reign unharmed, with a long list of conquests at their feet, although their methods are different and will inevitably be confronted, for what begins as an alliance will gradually become the fruit of pride, The jealousy and the ungovernable designs of attraction, in a bitter confrontation that will leave behind a dark trail of destruction. Control will give way to chaos, and love, to death.