BT

Twenty-year-old Ashley Delaney Hale-McCall is only trying to survive. Working as a dancer at Beacon Hills’ exclusive Velvet Room, Ashley doesn’t love her job, but she needs the money to pay her rent, buy food, repair her car, and keep the small apartment she calls home. Then one mysterious woman starts coming to the club every night. Her name is Malia Tate. Beautiful, wealthy, intimidating, and feared throughout Beacon Hills, Malia is the daughter of Henry Tate, the ruthless head of the powerful Tate Mafia family. Every night, Malia sits in the same private booth and watches Ashley from across the room. Ashley has no idea who she is. She’s only heard whispers about the Tate family. But Malia isn’t the only Tate who has noticed her. When Henry Tate begins accompanying his daughter to the Velvet Room, he takes an immediate interest in Ashley and repeatedly requests her presence. Ashley finds herself caught in the attention of a family whose name alone is enough to make people afraid. Then strange things begin happening. Ashley discovers her overdue rent has been paid. Her broken car is suddenly repaired. Groceries arrive at her apartment. Her bills are mysteriously handled. Even her paychecks are always exactly right. Ashley doesn’t understand what’s happening—or who is behind it. But Malia knows. And as Malia’s fascination with Ashley turns into something much deeper, Ashley unknowingly becomes caught between a dangerous father and daughter who both want her in their world. The Velvet Room was supposed to be Ashley’s way to survive. Instead, it may become the doorway into the most dangerous family in Beacon Hills.