Card Sharks
by Liz Maverick

Where are all the good men? Marianne and her best friend, Bijoux, are dying to know. Turns out they've been holed up around card tables, playing Texas Hold 'em. So Marianne and Bijoux decide it's time to up the ante and get in on the action. But they never imagined that Marianne would have a seriously talented poker player lurking inside her. And everyone knows what they say about lucky in cards...

Liz Maverick's Bio

For most of her life, Liz Maverick had no idea she was meant to be a writer. After collecting several initials (BS, CPA, MBA), Liz went to work first as a tax accountant, then as a Web site developer. Unfortunately, cubicle life simply wasn't for her.

Everybody always said that writers got to spend all day in their pajamas and eat bon-bons for lunch. That sounded very pleasant, so one day, while commuting to work on the train, Liz opened up her laptop and started to write a book. Boom! She'd discovered her true calling.

Liz Maverick now enjoys writing sassy contemporary fiction for Penguin Putnam's NAL imprint and kick-butt futuristic action romance for Dorchester and Red Sage.

If you ask Liz where home base is, she'd probably have to give you the address for a storage shed in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the last year alone, she has sent manuscripts to her editors from Antarctica, France, and Indonesia.

Every once in a while, she spends all day in her pajamas...and eats bon-bons for lunch.