A crime boss's son and an amateur photographer embark on a strange journey
Nothing matters to Jakob besides film noir. Ever since he was six years old, when his nanny first took him to the cinema, he has known that filmmaking is his future. His first script, Little Girl Lost, is finished, and as he prepares for production, he feels destiny within his grasp. Nothing stands in his way but his father, a boss in the Quinsigamond...

Following the death of her brother of an apparent suicide by overdose, Kali reconnects with her sister. To their dismay, they learn that he was the prime suspect in the double homicide of a wealthy heiress and a college coed. As if that weren't shocking enough, Kali also learns her brother might have ties to a young stripper's murder and the disappearance of a 16-year-old runaway. Kali must dig into the sinister underworld of the sex industry to find...

Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry. This groundbreaking ethnographic study of racial stratification in queer and straight strip clubs examines the lives and working conditions of Black and Latina dancers in strip clubs in New York City and Oakland, California. Though interviews with dancers, customers, managers, boucers, and other strip club employees, Siobhan Brooks explores the connections between race, desire, and commodification...

Reports on America's "shadow" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.

Stripping at L.A.'s Chi-Chi Club to pay for her college tuition at UCLA, drop-dead gorgeous Keisha Montez, who is blessed with a killer body, catches the eye of the head honcho at "PIMP" magazine, who will do anything to get her to star in his adult films.

Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida's sex trade. Now he retraces her steps and runs head on into a conspiracy of Miami's rich and powerful who would do anything to keep the past as dark as night and silent as the grave. In this tale of redemption and revenge. Jake Lassiter, second-string linebacker turned low-rent lawyer, is cynical about the law, but if you hire him, he will take...

How a trailblazing business turned the hottest bedroom toy accessories into a $350 million global empire. In 2000, Chris Cicchinelli was twenty-five and at a crossroads. He had just been forced to leave a promising position at a large retail franchise when his mother, Patty Brisben, called. She wanted her son's help in growing her women-only, in-home party business featuring relationship enhancement products. Cicchinelli had been earning well over...

"The perfect place for a woman on the run to disappear ... Accused of a horrific murder she didn't commit, former heiress Callie Ward has been a fugitive since she was sixteen--until she found the perfect hideout, Club Dominion. The only problem is she's fallen for the club's master, Mitchell Thorpe, who keeps her at arm's length. Little does she know that his reasons for not getting involved have everything to do with his wounded heart ... and his...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about a single mom, wits, grits, double shifts and murder! A Trailer Park Mystery (#2) Kountry Kitchen Southern cooking recipes included! Wanda Nell Culpepper s juggling a lot of plates two full-time jobs and riding hard on her rambunctious kids. But it looks like she s just landed a blue-plate special when one of her fellow waitresses winds up dead. Fayette...

"Juniper Fitzgerald recounts her life experiences as a queer, sex-working mother using childhood journal entries, feminist theories, and literary culture references"-- Provided by publisher.