ASIN B017QKYT1M moved to the most recent edition Julia Hawke is a writing professor, renowned for her skill at coaxing the best out of the young first year writers in her class. But at night, she coaxes female students into her bed, where they’ll get an education that isn’t on the syllabus. Julia is a serial seductress who enjoys the chase and once she’s had her fun, discards her prey. However, she never chooses a virgin to take to bed, for fear they’ll get too attached. Only the more experienced girls know how to play Julia’s game and that’s the way she needs it to be. No attachments, no love. Enter Penny Stone, a small town girl who’s new to the big bad city, with a love of writing that puts her in Julia’s class. She thinks that once she has her education her life is all mapped out, with a future that holds going home to run the family shop and saving herself for marriage to her childhood sweetheart. But as she spends time in Julia’s class, she begins to feel something new and strange around her teacher, something that might derail the life set out for her. Julia knows she should leave the girl alone and stick to her strict set of rules for her conquests, but a natural chemistry pulls the two inescapably towards one another. But can innocent Penny teach jaded Julia some lessons she thought she was long past learning?

Eighteen months after the events of the first book, Julia is getting her life back together. She's in a steady relationship, with a novel about to be published. But on the verge of publication, someone powerful and mysterious throws a spanner in the works of her book release, ending her career before it has begun. But whoever it is underestimates Julia's resolve and ingenuity. She's out for revenge and she'll use her best weapons; her intelligence, her guile and her seductiveness. In the midst of her quest to even the score, a chance meeting with Penny Stone, her former love, makes her wonder if she really wants to plumb the dark depths of her own soul. And as she spends more time with Penny, can they remain friends or will they both be pulled back into the maelstrom of their sexual attraction?

Julia Hawke and Penny Stone are finally together. From meeting while Julia was Penny’s writing professor three years ago to where they are now, it’s been a long, complicated (yet sexy) road. But at last, they’re a couple and they’ve never been more in love. Nine months in and the honeymoon is going strong. But every honeymoon has to end sometime… And when reality comes knocking, Julia and Penny find that their love is about to be tested. Parents, pasts, careers and love rivals are lining to up to get in the way of the relationship. How will they handle the ambush of problems? Will they figure out how to make it work despite everything the world has to throw at them? Or will they simply keep making the same mistakes that tore them apart before?