Cat Carmine: 6 books

The competition's heating up. You might even say it's about to get ... red hot. When my father died, I lost a hero and a role model — and inherited a floundering furniture company. So I do what any dutiful (and slightly guilt-ridden) daughter would do — I leave behind my burgeoning...

Be careful who you spill your secrets to... Some women just have it — that combination of stunning looks and sexual confidence that brings men to their knees. Not me. My last boyfriend once fell asleep while we were … you know. Not my proudest moment. And my crush on...

He’s the bad boy … but I’m the one breaking all the rules. I’ve always been the quintessential good girl. I don’t just follow the rules — I write them. As an advice columnist, I’m always telling people how to not screw up their lives. So you’d think I’d know better...

One bad boss. One regrettable night. One laugh-out-loud romantic comedy! I moved to New York to prove to everyone that I could — that I wasn’t the baby they all thought I was. So landing a plum job working for Logan Cartwright at the prestigious Cartwright Diamonds should have been a dream...

Working for my ex-boyfriend? Sure. But falling for him again? That’s a deal breaker. Dancing around my office in my bra isn’t exactly the way I’d have chosen to run into my ex for the first time in twelve years, but what can I say? Wes Lake has always had a knack for showing up at the...

A good-girl lawyer walks into a bar ... Throwing muffins at my ex in the office break room wasn’t exactly on today’s agenda. Neither was getting asked to take a not-so-voluntary leave from my job as a corporate lawyer. Just until I could get my personal life in order, they said, which you...