Take a Gamble

Playing the Odds:Sydney Skye is a Jenai, a race of female Genies who bring luck to the men in their lives. Hiding in plain sight as she dances in a dive off the Vegas strip. Life is predictable and hassle free, at least until she meets Jace. He's been looking for the right woman for a long time, and this woman is literally about to make all his wishes come true. A man with a few tricks of his own, Jace is swarthy, sexy and the deepest, darkest fantasy Sydney's ever had, his constant visits to watch her dance leaving her needy and wanting after every set. When Sydney agrees to help Jace win a high stakes poker tourney, All bets are off, especially when fate makes the attraction between them something more than either imagined.Double Down: Shadow Demon Lady Shade Loganazzi, lamenting the loss of her most recent lover, ends up in Monaco to enter a black jack tourney and forget her troubles with men and her life in general. She knows she's to be summoned back home to marry a man she doesn't even like, let alone love, and is determined to go out with a bang. She didn't count on gambling away her freedom in another manner.Caleb Marshapoltes, Djinn and cousin to the crown, knows what he wants when he sees it, and he very much wants Shade. An enigma on the supernatural betting circuit, she's harder to place a bet on then a winner in the 4th. But Caleb is smart, and knows that the woman that haunts his every thought is exactly the kind of woman he could end up with as a consort, something he didn't even consider until laying eyes on Shade.When they come face to face in the qualifiers, egos rear and lust flames as the two set to one upping each other... and in the process find out that what burns white hot between them could be meant for always, if they can figure out how to get her out of a loveless marriage.