We Are Not The Same: Luxury Romance Edition (Volume Two)
Your hero is emotionally unavailable. Mine is literally undercover. Your forced proximity is a snowstorm. Mine is a strip club during a shootout. This is Cassie's world. #wants😏 Volume Two.
🎵 Pour something that earns it. Danity Kane's "All In A Day's Work" is already playing. Because some of us make this look easy.
You already know what #wants😏 means.
You've been here. You've felt it. That knowing smirk when someone describes their favorite romance and you nod politely while thinking — that's cute. But that's not what I'm here for.
Volume One was Allegra's world. Private jets. Criminal empires. Former SWAT watching her command a boardroom like she was born to it. Because she was.
Nikki Cummings
Volume Two is Cassie's.
Same universe. Different texture. Less global conspiracy, more grit and lace. Federal courtrooms and MC clubhouses. A law degree and a biker patch in the same zip code. A woman who dismantles federal prosecutors before lunch and still makes it home for dinner.
All in a day's work.
If you know, you know. If you don't — you're about to.
Your Romance vs. Mine
Your love interest has secrets. Mine has three identities and a federal handler.
William Kross isn't complicated. He's layered. Three men. One woman who sees all of them and loves the one underneath.
Your hero is emotionally unavailable. Mine is literally undercover.
He's not withholding because he's damaged or afraid. He's withholding because his cover depends on it. Because the wrong word to the wrong person gets them both killed. Emotional unavailability hits different when it's a tactical necessity.
Your slow burn is will-they-won't-they. Mine is seventeen coffees and a federal drug takedown.
They built something real over seventeen coffees and twenty-two late-night calls. Neither rushing, neither playing games. And then one Saturday morning at a farmers market, two armed men appeared, William handled it in under sixty seconds, and Cassie stood too still with her fingers on her earring deciding whether to run.
Your forced proximity is a snowstorm. Mine is a strip club during a shootout.
Her, somewhere she never expected to be. Him, doing something she never expected to witness. And somehow — somehow — still choosing each other on the other side of it.
Your suspense is "did he mean it when he said I love you." Mine is "does the cartel know where we live."
The stakes aren't emotional. They're operational. The question is whether loving her puts a target on her back. Spoiler: it does.
Nikki Cummings
Your happily ever after is a proposal. Mine is surviving long enough to use it.
The ring exists. The intention is real. HEA is the destination. Getting there is the whole series.
Your enemies to lovers is a rivals arc. Mine is becoming friends with my ex's wife.
They're not enemies. They're survivors of the same lie.
Your HEA is a dream wedding. Mine is telling my parents I married a man they've never met.
Cassie Norman and William Kross deciding that when you know, you know.
Nikki Cummings
What #wants😏 Actually Means For Cassie's World
It means grit and lace. Leather and law degrees. A strip club and a Saint Laurent jacket in the same story. A woman who is Corporate Attorney, Middle Daughter, and Old Lady. She wears every title like she chose it. Because she did.
That's Cassie Norman's world. That's what #wants😏 means in Volume Two.
And if you're reading this thinking finally — you already knew we weren't the same.
Nikki Cummings
Nikki Cummings
This Is Volume Two
There's more where this came from. More moments. More contrast lines. More scenes that prove we are not playing the same game.
Volume Three is coming. And it's bringing Janet and Missy with it.
If you know, you know.
🎵 "All In A Day's Work" by Danity Kane is on the official Caviar & Crimes Spotify playlist. Because #wants😏 deserves a soundtrack as unapologetic as the women who read it.
Nikki Cummings is the creator of Luxury Romance and Caviar & Crimes. She writes spicy romantic suspense series that ruins you for everyone else.
Commitment is sexy. Read Caviar & Crimes.
