title: Joint Venture
author: Luciani, Kristen
description: Sometimes walking away can be deadly.Notorious celebrity playboy A.J. Morgan has more emotional baggage than notches on his well-used bedpost. Three-ways with fake-boobed blondes and gallons of whiskey only do so much to ease his tortured soul. Live to indulge, indulge to fill the voids. Those are his rules, until he meets cunning club singer Lisa Embry, whose heart is surrounded by more barbed wire than a high-security prison. Rules? What rules? A plummeting elevator, a near-broken nose, and a tangle with a knife-wielding lunatic should have been three very clear signs to steer clear of the atomic blonde. But A.J. never backs away from a challenge…even if it means sacrificing his tennis game. And his life.One hot night turns A.J. into an addict in need of his next fix, and he’ll pay any price for another hit. Until he finds out Lisa has her own rules, ones that can never be broken.