Ashley Bartlett

In their twenties, PJ Addison and Wylie Parsons were hot young actors. Their iconic performances as the final girls in Dangerous Summer Nights launched a slasher franchise, and their real-life relationship only made their characters' romance--and the film--more popular. But young love rarely lasts, and the Hollywood machine is brutal. A decade later they are called back to the most recent Dangerous Summer Nights installment. Their days of shifting cultural paradigms are long past. It's hard enough just to maintain Hollywood careers and pseudo happy lives. PJ's a director, finally making a name for herself that isn't attached to having been a sexy starlet. Wylie is on marriage number three and most days doesn't even mind that she's a clich . Their job is simple: pretend to be wildly in love on film again. Like professionals. But the more they fake it, the more they realize their feelings are anything but an act.

Cash Braddock's summer started bad and it's getting worse. Her suppliers keep getting arrested. Her competition is poaching all her customers. Laurel isn't who Cash thought she was. And her farm is under a microscope, which makes money laundering difficult. There's a new dealer on Cash's turf. When kids start dying from the dealer's pills, Detective Kallen turns to Cash for answers. Turns out her reputation for selling pills doesn't make her an expert. It makes her a suspect. Cash preferred it when she knew which cops were bad and good. Last time, her business and reputation were on the line. Now, she's got to worry about staying out of jail. And stay alive. Second in the Cash Braddock series.

Cash Braddock is a drug dealer. But the classy kind. Pills. She really doesn t get why people are so uptight about that sort of thing. She has a decent operation, a little business to launder money through, and only a few Mommy issues. Laurel Collins is the perfect girl for Cash. She wears vintage ties and is totally chill. She doesn t mind the dealing or Cash s cat. It s almost like she s Cash s dream girl. Sometimes she s a little closed off about, you know, life. But who isn t? Sadly, the drug game doesn t always run smoothly. There are dealers who don t respect boundaries and unreliable customers. And, of course, dealers don t fly under the cops radar forever. Even when they work with dirty cops. Which is a damn shame. It s not like they re hurting anybody, right?"