Series: Fandom Hearts #1
Publication date: January 3rd, 2016
Synopsis:
Geeky introvert Tessa Rodriguez will do whatever it takes to get promoted to video game engineer--including create a fandom-based video game in just three weeks. the only problem is, she can't do it alone. Now, she needs to strong-arm, cojole, and otherwise socialize with her video game coworkers, especially her roommate, Adam, who's always been strictly business with her. The more they work together, though, the closer they get...
Adam London has always thought of his roomie Tessa as "one of the guys" until he agreed to help her with this crazy project. Now, he's thinking of her all the time... and certainly as something more than just a roommate! But his last girlfriend broke up with him to follow her ambitions, and he knows that Tessa is obsessed with getting ahead in the video game world.
Going from friends to something more is one hell of a challenge. Can Tessa and Adam level up their relationship to love?
Series: Fandom Hearts #2
Publication date: July 25th, 2017
Synopsis:
They couldn't be more opposite, the Hollywood actor and the hometown girl, but all they need is a little convention magic to become the perfect ship in Cathy Yardley's One True Pairing.
Jake Reese needs a decoy girlfriend. Fast. The lead actor of the popular TV show, Mystics, is tired of losing his shirt to overeager fans. Literally. Which is why a chance meeting with gothabilly bookworm-slash-barista Hailey Frost seems almost too perfect to be true. Hailey is not impressed with his TV fame and is desperate to save her family's bookstore. It's a match made in Hollywood, but as the two pretend to date, fan fiction becomes reality. Can this OTP become canon?
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Excerpt from Level Up
"Um. Looks like snow, huh?"
He glanced at her, then shrugged, and she wondered if he was really awake enough for this conversation--as she recalled, he wasn't really a morning person. The problem was, if she waited until he was up and running, or God forbid until they drove home that night, then everybody else would have had a crack at him all day long. This was her window.
"Probably no snow for another few days, maybe a week," he finally said, as they pulled out of the driveway.
Success! Conversation! She took heart. Then, without preamble, she said, "I want that engineering position once Mac's gone."
Unfortunately, at that very moment he was also sipping from a to-go-cup and did a spit-take on the steering wheel. "Whoops. Sorry. Really hot," he apologized, wiping at it with the sleeve of his jacket.
"I think I'm ready," she said. "You know how hard I work. And I think that I could use a promotion. I've been with MPG for four years, since I graduated from U-Dub."
"I know."
"So why not?"
He took a deep breath. "Listen, I'm not firing on all cylinders. Can't this wait till tonight?"
"No," she said, surprising herself. She put her cup in the holder and turned a little. "This isn't because I'm a woman, is it?"
"God, no," he said.
"Because I know it's a boys' club," she said doggedly. "It's hard to be respected as a female coder. I don't expect it to be handed to me, but if I'm being passed over or ignored just because..."
"I swear, it isn't because you're a woman," Adam interrupted quickly. "Hell, most of us don't even think of you as a woman."
That took her aback. He glanced at her, looking aghast.
"And I totally didn't mean it that way," he said. "I think of you as a woman, trust me."
Now a little, wayward hormonal burst erupted, surprising her. This is Ani's fault, she thought, scowling.
"And I mean that in as non-sexually-harassing a way as possible," he quickly added. "I just mean I think of you as a programmer. Who happens to be a woman. Whom I totally respect. Who is probably more than capable of handling the job." He groaned. "Who I also wish would just shoot me and put me out of my misery because eight o'damned clock in the morning is too early to be having this conversation which I seem to be totally butchering."
About the Author:
Cathy Yardley is an award-winning author of romance, chick lit, and urban fantasy, who has sold over 1.2 million copies of books for publishers like St. Martin's, Avon, and Harlequin. She writes fun, geeky, and diverse characters who believe that underdogs can make good and sometimes being a little wrong is just right. She likes writing about quirky, crazy adventures, because she's had plenty of her own: she had her own army in the Society of Creative Anachronism; she's spent a New Year's on a 3-day solitary vision quest in the Mojave Desert; she had VIP access to the Viper Room in Los Angeles. Now, she spends her time writing in the wilds of East Seattle, trying to prevent her son from learning the truth of any of said adventures, and riding herd on her two dogs (and one husband.)
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