Cynthia Dane

They're two of the city's most toxic, unlovable people. Clearly, it was meant to be.DREW BENTONCall me what you want. A rake. A cad. A professional heartbreaker. I'm all those things and more. A man who's hired to ruin the women who have broken your lives and taken you for everything you're worth. If you're a man of means and have a vendetta against your vindictive ex? I'll become her worst, most charming, and devilishly sexy nightmare.So when I get a call to hop down to Portland and check out Stumptown's own resident succubus, I don't think twice. I did not expect to meet my match.Cher Lieberman isn't just a gorgeous girl with chameleon-like charm and fangs full of venom. She's responsible for half the broken hearts in Portland, and she thinks I'm her next target. Little does she know, I'm both playing her - and falling in love with her.CHER LIEBERMANI know what they call me. A lone wolf. A wily minx. A piranha prowling the rivers of Portland and getting off on making men cry. Half this town has been my lover, and I have no shame when I say I don't miss a single one of them.I don't need love. It doesn't need me. All I need is enough money to live my life in independent bliss. Not my fault God gave me the body and brains to destroy half the rich fools in this city. But there's something different about Drew, isn't there? I know he's the heir of a vast and old fortune. I also know he's never had a girlfriend for more than a few weeks. He thinks I'm a puzzle to be solved? A personality disorder to be diagnosed? He should take a look in the mirror and figure out his own problems, like why he treats women like they were born to please him.He's different because he does something to me. Something no other man has. As I play his games and up the ante around every turn, I realize that the pounding in my heart isn't just meeting the beat of my loins. It's love, ain't it? And there's no greater fright than that when you were not born to love. INTOXICATED is a standalone romance with a happy ending - and a lot of sass, steam, and unbelievable behavior in between This isn't your mother's romance novel, although she'll probably want to borrow it.

Their love is too hot to touch.MITCHFormer Marine Michelle "Mitch" Cruise has already lived through the most harrowing moments of her life. Between a kidnapping in Iraq and losing her family's home to wildfires, she's convinced that there is nothing left to harm her.But there is also nothing to fill the void in her dissociative life.It makes her the perfect candidate for a golden opportunity. There is a woman - a rich woman - searching for a month-long girlfriend. Mitch isn't na ve. She knows what this woman wants. So happens that Mitch is in the position to endure it.She never, ever counts on falling in love with reclusive heiress Vanessa - to the point she'll lay down her life for her mistress.VANESSAOne by one, the members of Vanessa's family have disappeared into the afterlife. The man calling the hits has driven her into hiding, where her only friends are her cold-shoulder staff and the husband-wife security team who know everything about her life.Including who she invites into her home.When Mitch arrives, distant and aloof, Vanessa is instantly intrigued. She's never met such a strong woman before, and the electric attraction between them brings new meaning to the kind of domineering love Vanessa has been making. In Mitch she finds the other half she's been searching for. The woman who isn't afraid to face danger while understanding what trauma does to the heart.Too bad Vanessa's oldest threat is so close, it's bursting from within her own sanctuary.Too bad she's dragged the new love of her life into open fire.

IAN MATHERSI am the man who has everything. Money. Power. Men - and women -would give anything to be me, and to have my girlfriend. Kathryn is more than a regal beauty, though. She's my partner. My better half. The woman I would die for should the cosmos declare a sacrifice be made. Soon, she'll be my wife.We've been down this road before. Kathryn doesn't like marriage. I don't care. She may already be mine, but I must know that I am hers as well.Even when our world is self-destructing around us, as it soon does.KATHRYN ALISONCall me what you will. Tell me I don't appreciate my boyfriend. Condemn me for being a bad girlfriend, because it's been four years and I still won't marry him. Why should I have to prove to the world what he already knows in his heart?The world is finding out too much about me as it is. The greatest secrets of my past have been exposed, and it will take a miracle for me to survive the humiliation.I can't look Ian in the eyes anymore. Not even when he tips my chin up and says he'll do whatever I need for him to make this right.Because what you - and he - don't understand is that our rivalry isn't over. We may be in love, but our petty feud remains. I need things from him that he has never given me...Just like he needs one thing from me that I've said I'll never give.Marriage.We'll see who gives first. Dom Vs. Domme 2 Is the sequel to the hit billionaire romance Dom Vs. Domme starring Cynthia's power couple Kathryn and Ian. It can still be read as a standalone story.

What do you do when everything - and yet nothing - changes?Seven years ago, bartender Gwen met a customer who would change her life forever. The charming and handsome James Merange, the only child of a local business dynasty, won her heart and convinced her to become his one and only. Too bad his family - and one other - had different ideas.Over seven years, Gwen had learned that she has no power in her partner's family. If they want the perfect, genetically engineered grandson of their dreams, they get it - even if it means going behind James and Gwen's back to inseminate an old childhood friend. If they want to humiliate the woman who Never Belonged, they find a way. And if they want Gwen gone?No amount is too little to get rid of Gwen Mitchell.While James balances surprise fatherhood with the love of his life, Gwen debates whether it's best to stay with the man she loves and trusts unlike any other... or to leave, effectively closing that chapter of her life.But James isn't about to let her go. Now, and forever.NOW & FOREVER details the aftermath of the Christmas story CHRISTMAS WITH CASSANDRA. However, it is not necessary to read that book to enjoy Gwen and James's first story. Includes bonus flashbacks to the start of their relationship

"A good girl is someone who hasn't encountered the perfect temptation." Ladylike heiress Audrey Weathersby is careful to never rock her family's boats. They don't even know about her ex-girlfriends or her fake IDs.But it's that fake ID that leads her to the hottest club in the city. While her friends tear up the dancefloor, however, Audrey meets the foil to her suppressed desires and curiosity. Dylan. The resident bad girl with an affinity for good girls like Audrey.What begins as a torrid fling soon transforms into something that opens Audrey's eyes to the life she's always wanted. The longer she's with Dylan, the more she realizes the sources of her suffocation. A toxic family. Airheaded friends. Caring for nothing but the trappings of wealth. "A bad girl is someone who refuses to accept the status quo."Dylan has dated her fair share of heiresses, but Audrey is the first one to make her believe in a chance at love. Yet it's not easy to give over to someone like Audrey. She represents everything Dylan has spent her whole life rejecting, for she knows all too well what it's like to be forced into the good girl role.And her past is constantly threatening to ruin everything she's built for herself since her darkest days. "Good girls don't go bad. They save themselves."The fatalistic love that haunts both Dylan and Audrey will last the summer. After that? Someone will have to give up the only life they've ever known. Easier said than done. Please note that this book contains examples of transphobia and growing up in an abusive cult.

One not-so-simple renovation project is about to get dirty... Nobody knows how flip like Reese, a woman with nothing to prove to her family of real estate kings. When her mother's chronic affliction almost claims her life again, Reese knows that there's only one way to save her family. All she needs is a leave of absence from the corporate office in San Francisco and a toolbox full of lesbian stereotypes. Has fate finally come to rural Oregon? Kimberly is a mild-mannered property manager who only wants to do her job and go home to her nosy parents... And fall in love, because a woman can only be untouched for so long Reese's unruly and disruptive renovation projects promise to make Kimberly's life hell. Too bad she's enamored with the handywoman from the moment they lock eyes. The feeling? Absolutely mutual. Life's about to get more interesting - and sensual - in a sleepy Oregonian beach town

At Leah's 30th birthday party, she meets a woman whom she's convinced is paid to entertain her for the evening. But in the following days, she discovers that Ms. Margaret Sloan, one of the most cutthroat businesswomen in the world, thought Leah was the paid professional she hired while in Portland for the weekend. Sloan fears a lawsuit. Leah fears her only chance for a whirlwind romance is about to fly off to Thailand or Switzerland. Too bad they're both keeping dire secrets that could doom whatever feelings they have. Oh, the devilish games they're about to play...

Daphne DeMarco, heiress to a hefty sum of department stores, does not take kindly to jerks. Enter Logan Dean. Yes, that Logan Dean, whose mother has won more Oscars than anyone else. It'sgiven him a bit of a... jerk streak. And he's set his eyes on Daphne. One double-date is all it takes to set the stage for this unlikely couple. When Logan throws down the gauntlet challenging Ms. Prim & Proper to a battle of wits, Daphne has no choice but to retaliate. Her reputation is on the line And her heart. Because the more Logan toys with her, the more she realizes he is exactly what she's been looking for to shake up her perfectly planned life.

Attraction has nothing to do with it. Until it does. NICOLE DELANEY Down-on-her-luck heiress Nicole Delaney can't take another hit. First, her dad dies, leaving in his wake a million debts that wipe out the family coffers. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, she now lives in a cramped downtown apartment with her mother. No privacy, and no money Only thing worse? Her professors in her fashion school telling her to pick a new job Nicole is simultaneously too old to rely on her sickly mother, and also too young to have a real chance to free herself from this unfortunate situation. So what does her mother do? Call the matchmaker. Surely, there's some rich guy out there looking for a hot, young wife... JENNY BISHOP The once-homeless Jenny Bishop now has it all: a bustling business as a fashion designer, enough money to keep her housed and fed for life, and access to everything she couldn't have as a foster kid. Except... there's one thing missing. A family. Whether broke or investing millions back into her business, Jenny continues to search for that elusive family she's always dreamed of having. When time gets in the way of traditional dating, she hits up a matchmaker with the hopes that there's one woman out there willing to wed a lesbian like her. TWO RINGS TO RULE THEIR HEARTS Nicole only agrees to marry Jenny to get her money, but what quickly unfolds is a genuine attraction that blindsides formerly-frigid Nicole and blinds Jenny to the logical solutions she desires. How can they think about a logical marriage of convenience when they're too busy jetting off to Hawaii for inspiration and... "inspiration?" Too bad. Because one of the nastiest women to ever play with a billion dollars is on a mission to destroy their blossoming love. So much for that June wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii

Nature vs. Nurture Takes the Battle to the Boardroom - And to Natalie Chen. What's the first thing they teach you in business school? Never let emotions decide your fate. That's how people get hurt. That's how millions lose their jobs. That's how I almost lost everything. When I accepted one of the most highly coveted internships in America, I never expected to fall in love with my boss by the end of the first month. I never expected that my boss, Eric Mann, used to go by another name a long, long time ago. And the woman the world forgot is screaming to come out and speak of the atrocities once wrought upon her life. Do I follow my heart and help her expose her family's deepest, darkest secrets to the world? Or do I follow my head and get as far as possible from this debacle? If I'm telling you this, we already know which path I chose.

Neither of them wants romance. Too bad that's what they desperately need. Rachel Taylor's freelance business barely pays her own bills, let alone her mother's. Her social life is confined to one friend working at the neighborhood coffee shop. And her love life? Duds and heartbreakers. Then hot, young, and artistically talented Zachary Feldman walks into her life. Too bad she's just made a vow of celibacy. Sometimes what an old, broken heart needs is a second chance at love. Playboy Zack, third son of the affluent Feldman Steel empire, doesn't have a lot expected of him. Which is why he spends his whole day on his yacht when he's not pursuing his next artistic endeavor. Women are amusements. And no one amuses him more than Rachel, the beguiling woman he meets in a quiet coffee shop. "I'm not ashamed to say I'm halfway to loving you." A game of hard to get culminates with Rachel agreeing to one thing: being "just friends" with a man who has made his intentions clear. Set on the serene waters, in the creative studio, and beneath the hot lights of a bangin' Indian wedding, JUST FRIENDS is the perfect way to end your summer romance reading.