Mia Bradshaw realized long ago that falling in love is a harbinger of pain. As a single mom working for one of the most prestigious venture capital firms in the country, she doesn’t have time for serious emotional entanglements. Her sort-of–friend boy is dependable, respectful and…okay, fine, maybe a little lukewarm but whatever! Who ever said there was anything wrong with being…vanilla? It’s safe, low-risk and not fraught with conflict and heart wrenching disappointment. Chris Camden is one of the most eligible bachelors in northern California. A successful entrepreneur with a hot car and a panty-dropping grin doesn’t need to do much to keep his bed warm at night. His smoldering hazel-eyed gaze makes women melt at his feet. No strings, no conditions, no questions - just the way he likes it. Why should he settle for just one when there are so many sizzling alternatives begging for a spin? A coveted opportunity to partner with Chris’s company stirs up emotions that threaten everything Mia’s been so careful to protect and control. The guy with more lines than a crowded supermarket before a snowstorm can singe her insides with the slightest accidental touch, proof that she needs to steer clear. But reality hurls a very unexpected curve ball that can change Mia’s life in a heartbeat. And sometimes…the perception of safety is relative.

Raw. Cold. Detached. Domineering... Paul Emerson lives life like he f\*cks. It’s the only way to survive, to battle the de-mons forever lurking in his subconscious, to resist succumbing to the darkness that perpetually overshadows his existence. As a ruthless venture capitalist with an insatiable appetite for power and control, he has no tolerance for emotion or any tryst spanning more than a few hours. Feelings equate to weakness and weakness destroys livelihoods. Driven. Focused. Bitter. Guilty… Avery Hunter is tormented by what she can’t change, but letting go is never the preferred option. Her successes aren’t nearly enough to fill the gaping void in her heart and soul. No, revenge always begets satisfaction and fulfillment…except when it extinguishes the last source of brightness in her life. Karma is a bitch and irony is her evil twin sister. Damaged. Rejected. Broken… The woman who harbors and the man who resists. With so much baggage and even more angst, can their wounded souls finally find solace in one another? Or is their future happiness doomed to be ravaged by the lies and deceit that litter their pasts?

Notorious celebrity playboy A.J. Morgan has more emotional baggage than notches on his well-used bedpost, but bleached blonde three-ways and excess of whiskey are all the therapy he needs. Live to indulge, indulge to fill the voids. Those are his rules…. until he meets cunning financial analyst-slash-sexy club singer Lisa Embry, a woman whose heart is surrounded by more barbed wire than a high-security prison. Rules? What rules? One lust-filled romp with his female alter-ego turns A.J. into an addict in need of his next fix and he’ll pay any price for another hit. But Lisa has her own rules… ones that can never be broken.

She’s Leaving...Because I Never Gave Her A Reason To Stay. Liv When I saved the new kid Hunter McKinnon from near-death by strawberry milkshake twelve years ago, I never imagined we’d become best friends. Or the hottest guy on our college campus whose dorm room has a revolving door for any and every bleached blonde, big-boobed girl with serious daddy issues. No promises, no strings, no commitment. Just mind-bending, body-quaking, soul-sizzling orgasms. That’s his MO. His manwhore ways never bothered me. I’d just watch and laugh at the sad and pathetic girls who’d fall all over themselves to catch his twinkling green eye. Until somewhere along the way, I became one of them. Hunter I have a secret. It breaks a rule. Crosses the line. Violates the code. Puts the most important thing in my life at risk. But none of that stops me from fantasizing about Liv Larson, the gorgeous all-star cheerleader with a body that can contort itself in ways that keep me up at night. There aren’t enough girls on campus who can distract me from the one I want but can never have. My best friend. And now she’s about to leave me, to follow her dreams, because I never gave her a reason to stay.