Ruthless — Jessica Lauryn

Does it excite you? The thought of taking your pleasure under my control? At Jason Davenport's casino, he makes the rules. The games and the players are his to command, until a mysterious woman calling herself Scarlet Lady threatens to bleed him dry. Jason's dealt with nuisances in the past. But his attraction to the red-attired hellion who obviously has inside information regarding how his games are rigged, grows stronger night by night. Rose water and freesia prove a deadly combination. When the woman wearing them strikes him below the belt, Jason fears he may be losing the war, and himself. Journalist Natalie Palmer will stop at nothing to avenge the wrong that's been done to her family. She's primed to rip every penny from the man who blew up her parents' marriage, but decimating Jason Davenport doesn't prove to be as cut and dried as she believed. Davenport is slick and cunning and more attractive than Natalie imagined. Fear becomes arousal, her dark desires for the monster who made her father a criminal, a temptation she's powerless to resist.