title: Tough Customer: A Novel
author:  Sandra Brown 
description: Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-eight <i>New York Times </i>bestsellers, including <i>Mean Streak</i>,<i> Deadline</i>,<i> Low Pressure</i>, and <i>Smoke Screen</i>. Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, most of which remain in print. Sandra and her husband, Michael Brown, live in Arlington, Texas.
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  Tough Customer
  
  Erin St. Charles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tough Customer is a standalone story inspired by Vi Keeland and Penelope
  Ward’s Stuck-Up Suit. It's published as part of the Cocky Hero Club world, a
  series of original works, written by various authors, and inspired by Keeland
  and Ward's New York Times bestselling series.
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Erin Martin
  
  Editing by Raw Books Editing
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are
  either the product of the author’s imagination, or within the public domain.
  Any resemblance to actual events or actual persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  No portion of this book may be reprinted, including by any electronic or
  mechanical means, or in information storage and retrieval systems, without
  express written permission for the author, except for the use of brief
  quotations in a review.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  [Chapter One: Samantha](index_split_004.html#filepos7235)
  
  [Chapter Tw