The Mistress Rules — Darrin Lowery

Ava Marie Grant is a hard working woman stuck in a $37,000 a year job. Tired of dating Mr. Wrong, Ava decides that she needs to change her social circles and go somewhere off limits to the average man.

Ava risks her rent, and everything she has on a charity event and an expensive dress in hopes of mingling with Chicago's wealthy. Ava wants her own happily ever after, even if that means taking someone else's.

Ava meets Mark Pleasant, a tall, dark, and handsome and a man of means. Intimidated by his status, she thinks he is out of her league. That is, until she meets Jeanette Bode, the Windy City Madam. Jeanette offers to teach Ava about seduction, and how to be a good mistress, rather than a wife.

Jeanette explains that there are rules to the game of dating wealthy men. These are the mistress rules.