Dragon Age: Hard in Hightown is an elaborate Dragon Age II joke. One of the NPC companions — one of the cool ones — is a Dwarf named Varric who writes lurid novels, when he’s not shooting the greatest shotgun in the universe a crossbow. One of these novels was called Hard in Hightown, and you would get references to it in-game, because Varric put everybody he knew in the book, including all your other NPC companions and, oh yeah, your own character. So somebody decided to actually publish the book; and Mary Kirby got tapped to, ah, ‘co-write’ it.
The entertaining part? I read part of it before I handed it off to my wife (she’s much more of a Dragon Age fan than I was). It was not half bad, what I read. Got a decent pulpy mouth-feel to it, really. I respect that.