"When Karma writes you a ticket, pay up or else " If life was like the movies, Jem Mitchell s wouldn t be such a mess. In LA s glittering world of dreams, he works an unglamorous job at a gourmet grocery store. His past is so deep and dark, the details are lost even to him. All he knows is he was once cursed by a meter maid, and ever since, his love life has sucked. When Detective Nick Davies becomes a regular at the store, Jem dares to hope he s un-hexed at last. He should have known that sex with a remarkably normal guy, devoid of weird fetishes and fatal personality flaws, was too good to be true. During a post-encounter cuddle, Nick recognizes the tattoo on Jem s back and remembers him as a young hustler he arrested nine years past. As Jem s memories come crashing back, he flees from Nick, but fate contrives to keep pushing them back together. And when Jem s old partner in crime is found murdered, the stakes are raised for life, for love, and a dangerous drama with no guarantee of a Hollywood ending. Warning: Stars a mild-mannered store clerk with a shady past, a hunky cop whose passion in the bedroom is as big as his passion for justice, and celebrity sightings you won t see on TMZ. "