Love's the biggest gamble with the highest payoff. In Las Vegas, you gotta ante up to win big. Charlee Champagne, Vegas’ most fearless PI, has always played by her own rules. But her latest case is about to turn her world upside down. Enter one Mason billionaire banker and total control freak. When buttoned-up Mason crashes into Charlee's life, desperate to find his grandfather, who's vanished with Charlee’s free-spirited granny, sparks fly. There’s just one bad guys are after them. From the glitzy strip of Vegas to the sizzling sands of the Arizona desert, Charlee and Mason find themselves dodging bullets in his vintage Bentley, with danger and passion at every turn. Who knew uncovering family secrets could be this perilous—and this electrifying? As they race against time (and some seriously bad dudes), this odd couple goes from bickering to bonding. Now they’re caught in a high-speed chase of a lifetime, with hearts and lives on the line. Can Charlee keep her cool with the billionaire banker turned accidental action hero by her side? And can Mason let loose and embrace the chaos called Charlee Champagne?
Author
Lori Wilde can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write. She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out to Harlequin Duets and now, to Blaze. Lori is an adventuresome soul who loves to travel. She’s taken flying lessons, completed two marathons, rode in a hot-air balloon, performed with a professional jazz band, traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone. She lives in her native Texas, with her own real-life hero, Bill.
