What a Girl Wants
by Liz Maverick

Hayley Jane Smith doesn't want much. Well, she does want a job, ever since she asked for a raise...and promptly got fired. And she wants a certain rugged, handsome detective, who seems to be interested in her too...although it might be because she's a suspect in a murder he's investigating. Fortunately, Hayley has her three best pals to help her out—Diane the brainiac, Audra the career wiz, and Suz the sexpot—who are, unfortunately, brimming with bad advice.

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.