Cisca Rourke
Cisca Rourke writes books based on the most interesting characters. Dark romance. Morally bankrupt heroes. Women who are smarter than every man in the room and not sorry about it. Her stories run on sharp dialogue, heat, and the kind of chaos that starts with a bad decision and ends with a worse one you're rooting for anyway. She is 28, lives on coffee, sarcasm, and the firm belief that the funniest things happen in the darkest places.
Badger: The Complete Trilogy — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
Romantic ComedyA criminal enforcer grabs the wrong woman off a Denver street on a Thursday afternoon. She's not the senator's daughter. She has opinions about the situation. "The Badger" has been waiting years for his shot at the big leagues. When his crime lord hands him a simple kidnapping job, he's ready. Truck stocked. Duct tape. Zip ties. A burner phone he's never used. The whole thing goes wrong inside five minutes. Kay Hessington is a substitute teacher and law school dropout with a coffee stain on her dry-clean-only coat and very specific opinions about his kidnapping procedure, his warehouse, and whether his entire intimidation package is actually skill or just good genetics. She has a long weekend. She is not as scared as she should be. What follows is a three-book story about a woman who files everything and a man who examines nothing, a contract dispute that requires a highlighter and page seven, a courtroom where the scariest man in Denver has been asked not to crack his knuckles, and the slow, precise, completely unplanned process of two people choosing each other. This volume contains the complete text of Badger: The Grab, Badger: The Contract, and Badger: The Ruling. A completed trilogy with a happily ever after.
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Badger: The Contract — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
Romantic ComedyThe contract was bulletproof. Until she read page seven. Kay Hessington is not scared of "the Badger." She's not scared of his crime lord, the crew, his truck, or the warehouse she now apparently lives in. She is, if anything, too calm about all of it—a law school dropout with a coffee-stained coat, a highlighter, and a very specific opinion about the contract a Denver businessman has decided to tear up. The Badger was handed the job. The job came with a condition: so was she. She reads the contract in the truck on the way over. Four minutes. Page seven. The conduct clause. Marcus Holt has a lawyer and a technicality. He has never been in a room with a woman who used to be on track to graduate at the top of her class and got that taken from her by a man she can no longer be in a room with. He has never met a woman who will do the legal work and then stand back and let the most dangerous man in Denver deliver the conclusion. He is about to. Book Two of The Badger Trilogy—a dark romance comedy where the legal brain and the physical presence become the same problem, and neither one is alone anymore.
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Badger: The Grab — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
Romantic ComedyHe had it under control. Until he kidnapped the wrong woman. "The Badger" has a plan. He's been waiting years for a real job—something bigger than protection rounds and intimidation leans. When his crime lord finally hands him the senator's daughter to grab off a Denver street on a Thursday afternoon, he's ready. Truck stocked. Duct tape. Zip ties. A burner phone he's never used. The whole thing goes wrong inside five minutes. Kay Hessington is not the senator's daughter. She's a substitute teacher. A law school dropout. She has a coffee stain on her dry-clean-only coat, a travel mug she brought into his truck, and very specific opinions about his kidnapping procedure, the condition of his warehouse, and whether his entire intimidation package is actually skill or just good genetics. She has a long weekend. She is not as scared as she should be. The Badger has days to fix his mistake before his crime lord finds out he grabbed the wrong woman. Kay has days to figure out why the most dangerous man in Denver cannot lie to her when she asks a direct question. Neither of them is prepared for what happens next. Book One of The Badger Trilogy—a dark romance comedy with forced proximity, a heroine who treats kidnapping like a scheduling issue, and a criminal whose intimidation package is about to get a performance review.
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Badger: The Ruling — A Romantic Comedy with Criminal Intent
Romantic ComedyShe wasn't a lawyer. That was everybody else's problem. The courtroom was not part of the plan. Neither was the judge, the ruling, or the morning Kay Hessington sat in a row of people who went to law school and finished and realized she was the most dangerous person in the room. The Badger was in the back. Leaning against the wall. Not because anyone told him to be there—because she was there, and that was where he was going to be. The ruling changes everything. What Kay does next changes more. Because building a life together means answering questions from people who ask them. A brother who needs to know she's safe. Standing in stores he never would have entered before he grabbed the wrong woman off a Denver street. A new case that needs a highlighter and page four. She didn't plan this life. She chose it. He didn't plan her. He's not letting go. Book Three of The Badger Trilogy—a dark romance comedy where the verdict is in, the filing system has collapsed, and home turns out to be a man with a truck that announces itself in every parking lot in the city. HEA—earned, specific, and very quiet.
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