Getting Rough picks up right where the pulse-pounding conclusion of Playing Dirty leaves off. Cassidy Whalen, the sexy Irish-American sports agent, has been vying for a partnership position with Striker Sports Entertainment against the gorgeous but self-entitled Shaw Matthews, and the competition gets so heated that it leads them behind closed doors and everywhere in-between, every chance they get. But with the promotion still on the table, Cassidy is forced to drop everything when a tragedy strikes and calls her back home. Shaw's not going to let her off the hook that easy. He shows up at her door fuming about her quick departure and how slighted he feels that Cassidy handed him the partnership that she'd worked so hard to secure. Seeing Shaw there and numb with grief over her father's death, Cassidy is desperate to feel something real--something that makes her forget. Soon the two are enmeshed in a tangle of passion and emotion, moving faster and faster into unfamiliar territory,... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге GETTING ROUGH (PARKER, C. L.)