Bad Boy($22.00Value)

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The author of Bad Girl proves that sometimes being bad feels really good. As the owner and editor-in-chief of Heat , Dallas's hottest new e-zine, Leah Reece will do anything to get her story, even venture into the shady underworld of 69, an erotic club which caters to the needs of those with enough money to get anything they want. Leah expected to get her scoop and run, but didn't count on getting sidetracked by a sinful encounter with a dark and sultry bad boy. Quin Perez is a bodyguard at 69. He can't afford to lose his concentration for a second, but he can't help lusting after the sexy editor who stumbles across his path. Now Quin is asking Leah questions she doesn't want to answer--and making her do things she never dared. Maya Reynolds has worked as a teacher, stockbroker, psychiatric social worker, and crisis-team interventionist, and is the author of several short stories. Table of Contents   Title Page Copyright Page   Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-one Chapter Twenty-two Chapter Twenty-three Chapter Twenty-four Chapter Twenty-five Chapter Twenty-six Chapter Twenty-seven Chapter Twenty-eight Chapter Twenty-nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-one Chapter Thirty-two Chapter Thirty-three   HEAT Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa   Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England   First published by Heat, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.   First Printing, April 2009   Copyright © Maya Reynolds, 2009 All rights reserved   HEAT is a trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.   LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA:   Reynolds, Maya. Bad boy/Maya Reynolds. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-101-02902-2 PS3618.E976B32 2009 813’.6—dc22 2008047095       Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.   PUBLISHER’S NOTE This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content.   The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. As always, it takes a village to produce a book. I owe special thanks to my marvelous editor, Tracy Bernstein, who stuck with me through this project—even when I was making life tough for her. Thanks, too, to Jacky Sach, my ever-patient agent. Thanks to everyone who critiqued this book for me. Huge baskets of flowers to Linda Lovely, who did yeoman’s labor when I was in a time crunch. And to Red Garnier for being a great cheerleader when I needed one. And, finally, thanks to my mother. She is slipping away from us now and will never get to read this book, which is probably a very good thing . Mom did not drive when I was a child, but I can remember her putting my brother and me into a red wagon and heading down the hills of Atlantic Highlands, NJ, to the local library, piling that wagon full of children’s books and lugging it back up the hills. She read to us every day, communicating her love of books and reading. I love you, Mom. Chapt