stripteasers

In early September of 2001, April is forced to bring her four-year-old daughter, Franny, with her to work at a strip club after her regular babysitter is hospitalized from a panic attack, but when Franny wanders out of the club and disappears, Bassam, a rich foreign client, and a man named AJ, who was thrown out of the club earlier, both become suspects.

Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware probes into the dark life of Lauren Teague, a young woman he treated years earlier when she was a troubled teenager, whose corpse has been found dumped in an alley.

Karrine Steffans, a former dancer in the music videos of such recording artists as Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and LL Cool J, continues her revelations about the dark side of Hollywood, and shares how her life has changed since the release of her first bestselling expose.

Karrine Steffans, a former dancer in the music videos of such recording artists as Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and LL Cool J, discusses the sexual and physical abuse she suffered as a young girl, describes her damaging encounters with the hip hop industry, and tells how she was able to finally change her life.

Congressman Dilbeck is compromised when a taste for naked women make him a target for blackmail.

Anita Blake is called in to investigate a case involving a vampire serial killer who preys on strippers, but as the consort of Master Vampire Jean-Claude, she finds it hard to be totally objective.

When twelve-year-old Tony, a talented artist, begins sketching the dancers at the Kitty Kat Club where his mother is an exotic dancer, it sparks the attention of social services.