Tempt 

Backbone & Burlesque Book Four

My life was a gilded cage, but a locked door is just a reason to break free.

I traded the relentless spotlight of my famous family for the stage lights of Titter, cut loose from the strings dictating my every move. As burlesque queen Zara Pour, I’m free to do as I please, rules be damned. That is, until my best friend and duet partner leaves the lounge, work tensions rise, and I land in a rut deeper than the Hudson River.

Enter Kade Freeman, Titter’s tattooed, musclebound bouncer. Unyielding and gruff, he has an infuriating habit of blocking all my best revenge plots. When one desperate scheme goes way off the rails, Kade gets more than he bargained for, the threat of my secret past now looming over us both. Forced into close proximity with the man I can’t stand, I realize there’s much more to us than a heated clash of wills.

Right when things seem solid, a smear campaign turns everyone I love against me, with Kade caught in the crossfire. I thought the stakes were high when I stood to lose my livelihood, but losing him? That’s a scandal I can’t overcome.