Stud Games
3 primary works
Book 1
Surveillance, seduction, and extra-dirty politics.
Christian Chatsworth-Brandeis has a problem. A huge one. The US senator he works for has run away with his latest mistress on the eve of a make-or-break fundraising event, and it's up to him to cover his irresponsible boss's tracks.
Stone Jackson, Senator Lacey's new bodyguard, looks enough like him that, with some extensive grooming, he might pass for the senator. Christian and Stone hatch a plan to substitute Stone for the senator, but Miami madness and the incendiary heat between them are throwing obstacles in their way. It's a race to find the senator and pull off the con of the century before the attraction between them spins completely out of control.
Previously published by Dreamspinner Press as Ace in the Hole by Ava Drake, July 2016.
Book 2
Love is a high-stakes game.
When Collin Callahan, British secret agent, goes up against math genius turned surfer bum Oliver Elliot, the battle is epic--and so is the attraction. They're pitted against each other in an exclusive, ultra-secret--and ultra-illegal--poker match in Gibraltar, but when players start dying and they could be next, they find a common goal: catch the killer before it's too late.
Evenly matched at poker and romance, they each wrestle personal demons that threaten to consume them as the stakes climb. It's an all-or-nothing gamble with both life and love on the line as they fight to be the last seven-card studs standing.
Previously published by Dreamspinner Press as Seven-Card Stud by Ava Drake, November 2016.
Book 3
In crime, like in love, there can be no half measures....
Fashion model Zane Stryker needs money--badly. At almost thirty, his glory days are behind him, and he needs capital to start over. When his luggage is switched with a bag containing contraband he's forced to deliver, it's either the worst thing that's ever happened to him... or the best.
Enter Sebastian Gigoni, formerly of the British Special Forces, who has to decide just where Zane's loyalty lies and why. Sizzling attraction erupts between them, but that doesn't mean they can trust each other. They double down in a race for their lives--and their love--but are their purposes at odds? As they struggle to reconcile their goals, their consciences, and the needs of their hearts, one thing is clear--they must go all in or give up altogether.
Previously published by Dreamspinner Press as All In by Ava Drake, July 2017.