Dirty Money

Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family's business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But, the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him but, becomes the only thing anchoring him between good and evil. Emily is consumed by Shane, pushed sexually in ways she never dreamed of, falling deeper into the all-encompassing passion that is this man. She trusts him. He trusts her, but therein lies the danger. Emily has a secret, the very thing that brought her to him in the first place, and that secret could destroy them both.

Anari is the epitome of a good-girl-turned-bad after her world is brutally destroyed. Consumed with her desire for revenge, she and her best friend Monica enter a life of drugs, fast money and betrayal - adopting the lifestyle that pushed them into the game in the first place. Hiding their true identities they quickly rise to the top of New Jersey's dope game. Using everyone who crosses their paths, nothing - not betrayal or addiction - will stop them from dispensing their street justice.

Every Hustler's reign ends in one of two ways...prison or death. Refusing to let the prediction become a reality, Julius "Jules" Carter creates new rules to an old game. Strategically, he forms one of the most notorious drug operations Harlem has ever seen. Jules thought the game was his biggest challenge that is until he meets Tish. Young and Ambitious she is determined to escape from Harlem's allure, but her love for Jules has her rooted. She gets tangled in his web of lies and deceit. When she finds out about his past demons and connects them with her own, she soon finds out that there's a thin line between love and hate. You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girl turns bad she's gone forever. Julius finds out the hard way that everything done in the dark eventually comes to light. Ashley and JaQuavis narrate a fast paced, suspenseful tale of one of Harlem's biggest drug lords, his rise to power, and the woman behind him.

In the beautiful, evergreen state of Washington, the uber-rich send their teenage and young adult children to the exclusive private Auburn College of Fine Arts, where the teachers', parents' and even the students' lives and loves collide. Beautiful professor Emory Grace loves her job teaching at one of Washington's most prestigious private colleges, but her private life is a mess. Her much-older husband, Ray, a Harvard professor, is an abusive, controlling monster and Emory makes up her mind to leave him and serves him divorce papers. The peace she finds while teaching at Auburn is shattered when a colleague goes on a murderous rampage, killing both teachers and students and Emory is caught in the crossfire. Rescuing a student, she sacrifices her own safety and is badly wounded. The student she saves, Bree, is the daughter of billionaire businessman, Luca Saffran, who, at the time of the massacre was locked in a divorce battle with his wife, Clementine. When Luca meets Emory and thanks her for saving his daughter, there is an immediate attraction. Luca discovers the abuse that Emory's much older husband, Professor Ray Grace has subjected her to and offers her safe haven. But Ray won't let Emory go without a fight. . Will Emory's physical and mental scars prevent her from ever trusting a man again, even if that man is as alluring and enigmatic as Luca Saffran? And will her violent ex-husband ruin any chance she has for happiness?