Muscle Man — Flora Burgos

For years, Nicole has been hiding behind a façade of perfection. Until her husband decides that he is tired of the status quo and wants to start all over—with his much younger secretary.            In a world where money talks and bullshit walks, she is divorced before she even delivers the baby he planted in her only months before, and when she is given the paperwork from one Harold Hammers cutting his parental rights to their children, a whole new future is laid out for her.            Suddenly, she is on her own, tasting freedom and living life with her best friend, Bianca, and her two kids by her side. Deciding not to live off her divorce settlement, with Christmas looming and no real work experience, she applies as a dancer at the strip club Bianca manages, The Penthouse Cabaret, only to fail. Miserably.            But the drop-dead gorgeous club owner has a proposition for her which doesn't include nipple tassels and platform heels.Out of nowhere, Derrick Muscle Man Haggerty is taking over every part of her life and every waking thought she has while tantalizing her senses, teasing her body, and teaching her to laugh.            Soon, she is drinking with the girls, cursing like a sailor, and finding every bit of her new-found freedom very much to her liking.            Can a woman like her, one who has spent her life being prim and proper, reconcile the girl she's always been with the one she is growing into? Or is it all a short-lived lark, a taste of the wild side not meant to last forever?