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Rue Bennett doesn’t lose. Not in the courtroom, not in bed, not anywhere that matters. She’s a defence attorney with a killer win record, a taste for control, and exactly one weakness: a strip club named Aphrodite, and the one dancer there who refuses to fall for her money or her mouth.
Maddy Perez is surviving, not living — stripping to stay hidden, stay solvent, and stay one step ahead of the man she escaped. She’s got no patience for entitled clients who think a fat tip buys them a pass on the rules. Except Rue keeps testing them anyway, and Maddy keeps taking her money.
What starts as pure friction — cash, attitude, and a chemistry neither of them wants — turns into something neither can walk away from, as Rue’s newest case creeps dangerously close to the world Maddy’s spent years trying to escape.
Enemies-to-lovers. Slow burn wrapped around white-hot heat. The only thing more dangerous than wanting each other is letting themselves need each other.