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Torn between duty and desire . . .my fate is in his hands.***Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider having hustled for everything in her life since her childhood in rural Louisiana. But in ballet, Jocelyn has found the thing she craves most, control.But when her estranged mother dies, Jocelyn's world is instantly turned upside down. Her only way out securing a donor for her position at London's Royal National Ballet.Jocelyn can't afford to lose this, but something about her sponsor, the charismatic Alistair Cavendish sets a fire in her. What she feels when she's with him is raw and real. Swept into a world of lust and luxury, the lure of sex and power keep clawing at her.Can Jocelyn choose between desire and duty, or is she doomed to fall into an intoxicating spiral of self-sabotage?***Readers are INTOXICATED by Melanie Hamrick!Melanie Hamrick's debut novel treads similar obsessional ground to the film Black Swan in its steamy imaginings of backstage shenanigans at a ballet c

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Dance was my obsession. Desire was my undoing. *** As a young dancer, Sylvie Carter has a list of rules for making it big in the ballet world. Avoid drama. Don’t do drugs. Skip dessert. And of course, never sleep with another dancer. Ballet is a cutthroat profession, and she can’t afford a scandal. Not again… But when she meets renowned Italian dancer Alessandro Russo, an electrifying encounter has her throwing out the rulebook. And as he tempts her into the darkness she swore she’d left behind, she wonders if this relationship will be the making of her… or if it will cost her everything. *** A brand new dark ballet romance, perfect for fans of Ana Huang, Colleen Hoover and Mia Sheridan: ‘Jealousy, pain and dance set in the harsh world of elite ballet'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'It was dark, there were twists, it was hot!’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Spicy, explicit, forbidden romance'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'SO risqué'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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