High Interest — Cynthia Dane

DAVID HAYESPlayboy David Hayes only has one goal when he takes his best friend Noah to the naughtiest annual auction hosted by New York's elite. He's there to party, nothing more.He never intends to actually bid on one of the lovely women appearing before his private window.Yet that's what hungover David wakes up to discover the next day. Not only is the beautiful and curiously enigmatic Kelsey going to live in his Brooklyn apartment for an entire month, but she's about to taunt his intellect and tease his libido until he can't imagine any other woman at this side.There's just one problem. Kelsey's as untouched as they come, and David did not sign up for that kind of pressure!KELSEY BRADSHAWAfter the sudden death of both of their parents, Manhattan heiress Kelsey Bradshaw and her brother Thomas are in a world of financial hurt. They've already lost their family's home and are on the brink of losing more than their material things.When Kelsey volunteers for the auction, it's with the understanding that men are bidding on her innocence before her looks. For Kelsey has known nothing but staying untouched for as long as her parents were alive. Since she was born, she had been promised to a very traditional family's son who wouldn't have her any other way.That deal is gone now. There is only David, the man who drunkenly bought Kelsey's innocence at auction.Nerves become attraction. Attraction becomes lust.Kelsey isn't only determined to take back the agency she's been missing in her life - she's convinced that David is the only man who can do the job!HIGH INTEREST is a steamy romance with a HEA. It's a companion novel to PURCHASE POWER about Noah and Lucy, but can be read separately on its own.