Selene Vale didn’t inherit the underworld—she conquered it. As the iron-fisted owner of Velvet Vice, the city’s most exclusive male strip club and a lucrative drug front, she rules with a mind as sharp as her stilettos. They call her Boss Lady, but behind closed doors, Selene battles ghosts from a past she’s buried in blood and betrayal.
When a dangerously charming dancer named Darius Vex walks into her club with abs like sin and secrets stitched behind his smirk, Selene knows he’s trouble. What she doesn’t know is that he’s an undercover enforcer from a rival cartel sent to seduce, spy, and if necessary—destroy her.
But the deeper he’s pulled into her world, the harder it becomes to remember which side he’s on. And Selene, who swore never to fall again, is about to risk everything for a man who was never meant to be hers.
Trust is a weapon. Love is a liability. And in Velvet Vice, everyone’s dancing with death.