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Best-selling erotic author, Risque, is back and she’s turning up the heat with her newest book, Smooth Operator (One World/Ballantine – September 2010; $14).

Smooth Operator is the story about Lyfe a black Adonis and one of the most powerful businessmen in the country. But there’s a catch: His superior is his gorgeous wife Payton, who “discovered” Lyfe when he was a mere delivery man and brought him from the mean streets to the boardroom. Though Lyfe’s more than proven his mettle, Payton never lets him forget who’s in charge.

Arri is a secretary by day. But at night, this voluptuous honey secretly earns extra cash to support her junkie sister’s five-year-old son by operating the Web site, ASmoothOperator.pro. With her webcam, she bares all for the men who log on. But besides the guys who pay for their pleasure, Arri has no connection to men in real life. Her past is too painful, and she doubts she’ll ever be able to trust another man again—until she meets Lyfe, her new boss, and soon to be her lover.

But will they both be able to break free from old wounds and forge something solid? It will be a challenge to protect their present bliss from Payton’s vindictive nature and from an unexpected menace, who threatens to tear Lyfe down and ruin every good thing—on the job and in the bedroom—he and Arri have tried to build.

Smooth Operator is in stores everywhere, and available on Amazon.com, HERE!

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National best selling author Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker, is the award winning and number one Essence best selling author of the fourteen titles. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Sister2Sister, Vibe Vixen, Hype Hair, and Essence.

She writes contemporary women’s fiction as Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker, however she also writes Erotica and Young Adult Fiction under the respective pseudonyms of Risque and Ni-Ni Simone. Her titles as Tu-Shonda Whitaker are: Millionaire Wives Club, The Ex-Factor, Kiss The Year Goodbye, Cream, Flipside of The Game, and Game Over.

The titles written as Risque: Smooth Operator, Red Light Special, and The Sweetest Taboo.

As Ni-Ni Simone she has written: Shortie Like Mine, If I Was Your Girl, A Girl Like Me, Teenage Love, and Upgrade U.

Whitaker is hard at work writing her next novel. She lives in North Jersey with her husband and their children.

Tu-Shonda has agreed to give away three copies of her latest book, Smooth Operator, written under her pen name, Risque. The first three persons to email the answer to the following question will win a copy. Please email your answers to: girlworkonyou@aol.com

There are four female main characters in Tu-Shonda’s novel, Millionaire Wives Club, what are their names?

Good Luck!

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