When Bad Girls Go Good
by Terri Garey

Be honest: do you consider yourself a “good girl” or a “bad girl”?

Or, like me, are you somewhere in between--a good girl who sometimes wishes she could be bad, just for a little while, and not have to suffer the consequences of an aching head, or worse, a video of yourself on YouTube doing something you wouldn't want your mother/father/children/significant other/*insert guilt trigger of your choice here* to see?

Oh, those lucky, lucky bad girls...they say whatever they feel like saying, wear whatever they choose, flaunt their attitudes and their, um, assets. They seem to get all the attention and have all the fun, without any of the responsibilities that we good girls often take on voluntarily. I mean, when was the last time you saw a bad girl selling Girl Scout cookies?

I'll be honest and say I've TRIED to be a bad girl occasionally, but I've never been able to pull it off. I just can't seem to switch off that internal voice that whispers, “You can't say that, you'll hurt someone's feelings! You can't do that, it's entirely too selfish!”

I'm a hopeless good girl, because I'm constantly putting myself in someone else's shoes, and thinking about how I'd like to be treated. Which led me to wonder, if the stilletos were on the other foot, whether bad girls ever have the same problem, in reverse.

What would you do if you, and the rest of the world, thought you were a bad girl, but deep inside there was a good girl dying to get out? That's the question that Nicki Styx has to answer in A MATCH MADE IN HELL. Once a wild, carefree free spirit, Nicki now sees spirits, and they all need the help of a good-hearted person to “cross over”.

When the ultimate “hottie”--the Devil himself--shows up and does his best to bring out the bad girl in Nicki, does she kick off the stilettos and take the high road, or party down with the baddest bad boy of them all?

Being a good girl isn't always what it's cracked up to be, you know. And I've got plenty of leftover Girl Scout cookies to prove it. (Oh, the horror!)