If you want to be a playa, you’ve got to learn to live by the rules. . .

In this first ever short story collection, New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson takes us on five steamy, sexy adventures.

Brenda Jackson is the national bestselling and award-winning author of over forty novels. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with her husband. She is currently at work on her next novel. Author’s Website: www.brendajackson.net Author Q&A 1. What do you like to do in your free time? In my free time I love writing.  I still work full time so pleasure time for me is weaving together those love stories that make your heart go pitter-pat and always end with a happy ending. 2. What kind of music do you like to listen to? Why? I love Old School.  Give me some Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, any Motown Sound, Sam and Dave, Chi-Lites and I am happy.  And those songs are the basis for a lot of my books.  I write while listening to that music. To me, that’s when the words to a song meant something and you knew exactly what was being said and what it meant.  They were true love songs. 3. What’s your all time favorite movie? Why? Mahogany with Diana Ross and Billie D. Williams.   I also . . .

Lance Montgomery, renowned relationship expert, has perfected the art of being a playa. His acclaimed workshops and bestselling books prove it. His most popular title, The Playa’s Handbook, caused a major uproar among black women and men, and shot to the top of the bestseller list. Then he met Dr. Asia Fowler, a colleague whose views on love are vastly different from his own. Intrigued and unable to forget her, Lance wanted her in his bed. Instead, she found her way into his heart. Fighting his feelings for her, Lance drives her into the arms of another man. Soon after, he realizes Dr. Asia Fowler is the first woman he has ever loved. Now he’s determined to get her back. No matter what. Pub Date: 11/2005 | ISBN: 0-312-33182-7

After a close friend commits suicide, Faith, Monique, and Shannon head to the beach cottage on Hilton Head Island.  Determined to heed her advice and make the most of their lives, they make a pact to spend the summer embracing new adventures.  They also embrace new men and a new best friend along the way. Filled with profound passion and sensuality, witty dialogue and richly drawn characters, this is a story of women having fun, embracing life, taking charge, and doing the things they want – and discovering in the process that everyone deserves to kick the routine every once in a while, let her hair down and explore new things.  And if the right man comes along, especially one who is willing to make an already hot summer even hotter, then pushing the envelope just might give her life the jolt it needs. Pub Date: 01/2007 | ISBN: 0-312-35934-9

Everything in attorney Skye Barclay’s life is fitting smoothly into place until she makes the startling discovery that she was adopted. Not only does she learn that her birth mother has died, but now Skye finds out that she has a biological brother: Vincent. Skye wants to track him down, and her parents support her. But her fiancé Wayne, refuses and abruptly ends their engagement. And then she meets sexy and shrewd businessman Slade Madaris who wants to make her his… View The Trailer! Pub Date: 01/2007 | ISBN: 0-312-94049-1

It’s less than a week before Sonya Morrison’s wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney Andrews along with all of her best wishes. Courtney, who’s fast approaching thirty, thinks every woman she knows has somehow met a man who is husband material except for her. So Sonya’s little black book seems to be just what she needs. That’s until Courtney discovers she and her cousins have completely different tastes when it comes to men. But just when she is about to give up and toss the infamous little black book into the garbage, when she meets Lake Masters. Eight years her senior, he’s a lot older than the men she’s normally attracted to, but he’s handsome, intelligent, wealthy, and a man who is determined to sweep her off her feet. But the road to love is never easy and Courtney may find that her little black book is more a curse than a blessing. Pub Date: 04/2009 | ISBN: 0-312-57046-5 Reading Group Guide Questions: 1. Do you feel that in the beginning Courtney should have been more supportive of her parents’ decision to save their marriage? . . .