She's a professor at a prestigious university, and he's one of her department's new graduate students.

Dr. Mary Pine never imagined that she would be starting her fifth year as a faculty member in the Medieval Studies department as a thirty-two-year-old widow.

She is sure she will be the butt of every joke around campus as the collateral damage of a sex scandal that made national headlines. And her husband left her completely broke before he killed himself.

Mary doesn't want to lose her house and all the money she invested in it, so she makes an arrangement through The Club to get out the financial ruins her dead husband left her in.
All Mary has to do for the money is date a wealthy man, who wants all of the benefits of having a mistress, without any of the hassles of an actual relationship.

When Dante McNally chooses Mary for an arrangement, there is just one catch.

He's one of her department's new graduate students, and the recipient of a prestigious research fellowship funded by his billionaire father.

And this is the year Mary is supposed to be applying for tenure.

SAPPHIRE BEAUTIFUL is the second book in the spicy, hot CLUB series and can be read as a stand-alone or as part of the series.

Karen is a USA Today Best Selling author.  She has published over 40 books, some under her own name, but the majority under her various pen names.  As Dakota Madison, Karen writes New Adult, contemporary and Love in Midlife romance.  In 2014 Dakota was awarded the prestigious RONE Award for Excellence in the Indie and Small Publishing Industry. As Ren Monterrey, she has reached into the erotic romance market with the much acclaimed Club Series.  Under the name Sierra Avalon, Karen has published four New Adult romance novels.  As Savannah Young, Karen writes her Old Town Country Romance Series, based on the small rural New Jersey town in which she grew up.  She has also written over a dozen books as Karen Mueller Bryson including stories of inspiration, children’s books, quirky comedies, a biography, and even a graphic novel.