Players will play.  Flynn Taylor, rock ‘n roll heartthrob, plays fast and loose. He’s with different girls every night. Yes, girls plural. On the brink of becoming not just a Chicago sensation but an American icon,  he’s everything I should avoid. Then again, maybe it doesn’t matter. I’m so damaged, I’m not even capable of a relationship. He might be the perfect antidote.  The temptation I need to lure me back to the side of the living. He could help me get over my trauma. Attempt physical intimacy.  If it goes wrong–no harm, no foul, right? If only I can keep my overprotective bratva brother from threatening to kill him if he even touches me…

The Player

EPILOGUE













CHAPTER 8








Nadia

I’m in love. I want to be a burlesque dancer. They are everything.

I watch the way the women hold their own on the stage. They dominate. They are sexual—

but empowered. Beautiful and demanding of our attention.

This is exactly what...













CHAPTER 8








Nadia

I’m in love. I want to be a burlesque dancer. They are everything.

I watch the way the women hold their own on the stage. They dominate. They are sexual—

but empowered. Beautiful and demanding of our attention.

This is exactly what...