Description

New Orleans at Carnival, all crumbling stone walls and scarlet blossoms. Danielle Sosna has built a career out of telling herself no; that discipline is exactly what landed her a dream job at Vogue Paris. The city is meant to be one last assignment before she ships out overseas, a Mardi Gras shoot to wrangle and a plane to catch, and Dani has no intention of letting anything local touch her.

Then she meets Bobby Prejean, a seductive Cajun chef who reads her iron will as a dare. His offer is precise: one night of complete indulgence, on the condition that she obeys his every command. Dani accepts on her own terms, entering his world of fetish costumes and masks while giving Prejean everything except her name. One night stretches into a week of Mardi Gras spent suspended between pleasure and pain, and the anonymity she counted on to keep her heart out of it quietly stops working.

Kennedy writes this as book three of the Facets of Passion series for Carina Press, following Sapphire and Platinum, each a standalone built around the same trade of control for surrender. Ruby’s version of the question is the career woman’s: when the dream job and the dangerous man both demand everything, which appetite is actually running her life?

Lush, disciplined, and drenched in its city. For BDSM romance readers who want their heat with a literary hand and a plane ticket looming over it.