As a police detective, Nicole Arroyo has heard it all. But a potion that renders people crazy with lust? Right. This colorless liquid is just another one of journalist Ethan Ramsey's schemes to get her into bed. With her weakness for sexy men who break women's hearts, there's no way she's giving him a chance. So how can she explain the sizzling urge that leads to the hot encounter with him in the backseat of his car...or the one against her front door...or the one...? Well. For some reason, she now wants Ethan. But a lust potion? It couldn't possibly be real...could it?

Kathryn Walters may once have been a career-obsessed book editor with a libido that fell asleep in the time-out corner, but no more. Ever since she and Coyote Sullivan—sports editor and Native American hottie—shared a sniff of a supposed lust potion, things have really heated up. So much so that she's abandoned her nightly fantasies in favor of a much steamier reality. But are the fireworks the real deal? Or is this fling the result of the potion? And if the stuff isn't fake, what do they do when the bottle runs dry?

After a mysterious lust potion works its sexy magic on her pals, gossip columnist Zoe Aberdeen wants to know the story behind it. Could the potion be the real thing, or just a hoax? When she asks her neighbor Donovan Shane for help, he's not interested. He's a crime scientist—he's interested only in solving real mysteries, not some weird mojo! But Zoe doesn't like to take no for an answer, and what Zoe wants, Zoe gets. So she decides to "persuade" Shane in her own special way, and soon he's testing the potion and acting out his every fantasy with the sassy redhead….