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    Raising the Stakes
    Raising the Stakes
    Raising the Stakes
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    Raising the Stakes

    By Amy Lane

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    A Gambling Men Story

    Jace has always been good at holding his cards close to his vest, but after three months of being lovers, Quentin is getting pretty good at reading his tells. Still, Jace's foul mood at work could be a game breaker. Jace is going to have to show a card or two and Quentin will have to go for broke if they're going to make the relationship gamble pay off.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2010
    ISBN9781615814749
    Raising the Stakes
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    Amy Lane

    Award winning author Amy Lane lives in a crumbling crapmansion with a couple of teenagers, a passel of furbabies, and a bemused spouse. She has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action-adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day! She writes contemporary romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and romantic suspense, teaches the occasional writing class, and likes to pretend her very simple life is as exciting as the lives of the people who live in her head. She’ll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write. Website: www.greenshill.com Blog: www.writerslane.blogspot.com Email: amylane@greenshill.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/amy.lane.167 Twitter: @amymaclane

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      Raising the Stakes - Amy Lane

      Raising the Stakes

      DO YOU two do any real work or are you making plans to suck face?

      Quentin’s business partner could sound like a real sonuvabitch sometimes. Jace had been giving him the evil eye all day, and Quentin still had no idea what he’d done wrong.

      What’s up with Mr. Sweetness-and-Fucking-Light? Elsie asked. Elsie was Quentin’s secretary and the office manager for the day-trading company that Quent and Jace had built from scratch after they’d graduated from college. She was in her late forties, was happily married, had just sent her youngest to college, had a mouth like a sailor, and left exactly on time every day. She could do that, because she was so fucking efficient that by closing time, she had nothing on her pile, ever. Period. The end.

      In fact, she was so fucking efficient that Jace’s secretary, Lexi, and their paid intern, Tony, rarely had anything in their pile at the close of day, period-the-end either.

      Jace and Quentin, who liked to play as much as they liked their work, adored all three of them and showered them with everything from chocolate to expensive vodka. It was the happiest goddamned office in

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