Cynthia Dane

Hildred Billings

What do you do when the hottest and richest woman in town asks you out? Run, apparently. NADIA No one has seen more billionaire-matchmaking carnage than Nadia Gaines, receptionist to the most expensive office around. If it's not some old (and married) guy trying to impress her with diamonds and trips to paradise, then it's... Well, it's Eva Warren, an old-money heiress whose tabloid exploits are as sordid as they are really, really gay. Nadia is no stranger to lesbian lust. But no matter how much she wants to give in to Eva's seduction, one mantra lurks in the back of her mind: Never date a billionaire! Until the one night she does give in, anyway. Then everything goes to hell. EVA Life as a billionaire heiress isn't all sunshine and kitty whiskers, especially if that heiress is Eva Warren. She's managed to shake off tabloid gossip that's ruined more than one woman's life, but she'll never be able to shake the two things she wants most: to work for her family's business, and to date every beautiful woman she meets. Curvy Nadia isn't like the others, however. Even though the mutual attraction exists, for some reason she keeps shooting down Eva's advances. Until Eva finally gets Nadia right where she wants her... So begins one of the hottest games of hard to get to ever befall womankind. High society might not survive it.

Hard to Get

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 naïve. 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.

Into the Fire

Stay Here Tonight

Lust and love collide. And it's a mess.VICTORIA NICHOLSONHeiress Victoria is about to embark on a world tour marketing her new advice book for lesbians. The public demands to meet her socially reclusive girlfriend, the woman of Victoria's inspiration.Too bad the girlfriend leaves her. For another woman. (In a RV...)Victoria's broken heart only sees two options: cancel the tour, or go alone. Her publisher, however, demands a woman on her arm.Any. Woman.MADISON RICCIWhen Madison's boss at the escort agency sets her up with Victoria, she leaves out one little thing.Namely, that Madison's new client is a woman!Madison has never been with a woman before. But two weeks together forces her to choose between a tenuous love with a woman on the verge of a heartbroken breakdown, or taking her career to the ultimate level.ONE KISSES. THE OTHER TELLS.Victoria is willing to have a rebound. Madison is willing to court a new client. Both are going to have to massively compromise if they want to bring their hot fling back to America.It ain't gonna be easy!

Kiss & Tell

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...

Games We Play

Until We Break

A scorching age-gap ice-queen romance with a happy ending. TARA STAUDENMAIERCollege student Tara Staudenmaier will do anything for her family. When medical debt looms, she doesn't hesitate to do whatever it takes.Even if it means putting herself - and her inexperience in love - up on the auction block.She only asks that nobody discover her biggest secret. The reason she's gone gray at twenty and now has something to offer a would-be suitor looking for a month-long affair. ASTRID EVANSTwo years after the death of her husband, Astrid is used to the jokes and jeers from the peerage. Everyone knows she's a trophy wife who received the inheritance of a lifetime.But it didn't come without a price. Traumatized by her former experiences, Astrid now spends her nights subjecting herself to the same events that once changed her life. That's how she discovers Tara, a young and naïve woman who will be chewed up by the same system that stole Astrid's own youth. THE ONLY KEY... IS HYPOCRISYWhen Tara arrives at Evans Manor for a month of companionship, Astrid rejects their mutual attraction, if only to sleep better at night.Soon, she can't sleep at all. The electric chemistry between Astrid and Tara is unlike anything to hit the quiet country manor. While Tara explores what it means to fall in love and indulge in her lifelong fantasies, Astrid confronts the nightmares that have turned her into the ice-cold queen of her fortress. Everything she needs is within grasp - yet she denies it.Until she can't anymore, and all hell breaks loose.

Everything She Needs

She's the richest woman in a city built on billions of dollars, and she's got the trophy girlfriend to prove it. Business and pleasure tend to mix in the high-stakes world Adrienne Thomas breathes. As the co-owner of one of America's biggest corporations, the young billionaire doesn't have time to date... especially when her recent bisexual awakening leaves her more confused than her confidence likes to admit. That's why it was so easy to start dating her business partner's smart and gorgeous executive assistant. Amber Mayview made her intentions clear from the moment she first seduced Adrienne: this was all about sex and money, a relationship of mutual needs and satisfactions. Now, months later, one of the most over the top same-sex couples has reached an impasse. Amber is no longer satisfied with the sugar baby lifestyle. The longer she stays with Adrienne, the more she falls in love with more than just her money. But for two women who should never be together to make it through this rocky patch, they're going to have to admit more than their love. They're going to survive ex-lovers, a media play that refuses to release them, and enough sex to burn down their city in sinful flames. Good thing it's worth it. For love, of course. (The money's just a bonus.)

On the Rocks

Jade Emerson didn't take up a job in private security to be paired with her worst nightmare. But that's what she gets when her boss sends her on assignments with former FBI agent Stella Moore, who is brash, forgetful... and dangerously hot. Their tenuous attraction is at times exactly what they need and at other times a detriment to their clients. That is until a frightened wife hires them to protect her and her infant... from her husband. The rainy city of Portland has seen its share of female couples, but these two are thornier than the City of Roses. Can they overcome their dating pasts to save a woman in need? Or are they doomed to crash and burn... taking half the city with them?

Crash and Burn

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!

With This Ring

The sequel to the 2019 hit! One needs help... For over three years, girlfriends Jane, Caitlyn and Rebecca have been living together in domestic bliss. Punctured with productive days at work and hot nights at home, their idyllic relationship couldn't be better. Until there's an issue with Jane's visa. Now, armed with the best immigration lawyer in town, Jane is prepared to do whatever it takes to stay in America. Another doesn't want to rock the boat... When it's apparent that the answer is for Jane to marry one of her girlfriends, Caitlyn immediately absolves herself as a candidate. She and Jane have already been married before, and she knows she can't go on that roller coaster again. That leaves Rebecca, who is more than willing to marry Jane if that's what it takes to keep their family together. Yet as the big day draws closer, she worries that the unique closeness between her and Jane might once again chase Caitlyn away. And another yearns for them to always be together... In the midst of the legal chaos comes another challenge. Jane's sister is in town for mysterious reasons, and Caitlyn is the only one who can help. While everything crashes, burns, and grows again around her, will Caitlyn succumb to the pressure, or will she be the rock that everyone around her needs more than ever? Is love ever enough? MENAGE A L'AMOUR is a menage romance featuring three heroines in a relationship together and a HEA.

Menage a L'amour

The Contract

ALYSSA A call on a Friday evening. My handsome boss, Julian Marcus, wants me in the office. Something like this has never happened before. I should see it for what it is. Mr. Marcus wants to seduce me. Me. Alyssa. A twenty-one-year-old woman who has never been touched before. But he doesn't know that. Nor do I know how to handle a standoffish man like him - in the office, or in the bedroom. JULIAN Alyssa was supposed to be a nameless girl in a city full of nobodies. But I'm the boss. What I want, I get. And if I want her to be my girlfriend, the sweet, untouched woman I mold into my perfect lover? I get that. If I order her to give me every part of her, she will. I dare her to disobey. I don't think she will.

Alpha Billionaire Romance

Bossed by the Billionaire

"His instant lust was palpable. His instant love was unbelievable. The instant legacy we created? That was fate." Alice doesn’t know she will succumb to the gravity that is Damon Monroe, the only heir to his family’s mighty legacy. But he does. From the moment they meet at his exclusive nightclub, Monroe insists that Alice is his fated match, foretold almost fifteen years ago when he didn’t believe in love. His need for her costs her more than one job. His drive to continue his family’s legacy has her making more than one mistake. And his instant lust that transforms into instant love for a woman named Alice Culver? That makes her the only one who can destroy him. Alice doesn’t know she will completely change one of the most powerful families in America. She doesn’t know she will become one of the most hated yet revered women in the corporate world. Everything she doesn’t know, Monroe will teach her. He will stain her, train her, and then help her reign over his empire. All she has to do is show up to work one night. Fate will take over from there --- billionaire, billionaire romance, first time, instalust, alpha, romantic suspense, inexperienced, bdsm, domination submission

An Alpha Billionaire Romance

Stained

Spark

Dances With the Rock Star

A FIVE-PART NOVEL IN ONE COMPILATION. INCLUDES A FOUR CHAPTER SAMPLE OF CYNTHIA'S OTHER PORTLAND-BASED ROMANCE NOVEL, DAMAGED GOODS. ALYSSA A call on a Friday evening. My handsome boss, Julian Marcus, wants me in the office. Something like this has never happened before. I should see it for what it is. Mr. Marcus wants to seduce me. Me. Alyssa. A twenty-one-year-old woman who has never been touched before. But he doesn't know that. Nor do I know how to handle a standoffish man like him - in the office, or in the bedroom. JULIAN Alyssa was supposed to be a nameless girl in a city full of nobodies. But I’m the boss. What I want, I get. And if I want her to be my girlfriend, the sweet, untouched woman I mold into my perfect lover? I get that. If I order her to give me every part of her, she will. I dare her to disobey. I don’t think she will.

BOSSED: By the Billionaire

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.

Bound

One needs healing...Heartbroken redhead Rebecca Pruitt is escaping her toxic past when she bumps into the last thing she needs - but everything she wants.Business power couple Caitlyn Adams and Jane Wong fancy Becca from the moment they see her in an airline lounge. Jane's tenacious flirtations and Caitlyn's beauty queen charms are almost enough to draw Becca into their private plane for the night.'Another desires recognition...Instead, she steps into their office a few days later and seals her fate. Becca not only becomes the shared executive assistant at Adams & Wong, the new venture capitalist firm in town, but also their shared girlfriend.None of them are strangers to aspects of this arrangement. Caitlyn and Jane are pros at entertaining a third in their relationship, but have yet to find their match made in Heaven. Becca still isn't over the successful woman she dumped to save her own life.And another simply wants to be a family...Too bad Becca is hiding a secret from the new girlfriends who give her everything she's ever wanted. So is Jane, who yearns to come clean. And Caitlyn? What she keeps from Becca could ruin everything they've built in such short time.In this house of three, nothing is conventional, but everything has the potential to unite them... or break them.

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