First published 2010
Bentley L. Dean owns Picture Perfect Modeling, Miami South Beach's premier agency representing the world's most stunning models. When celebrity party planner Sterling Sneed offers an enormous fee for fifteen models to work an elite party as entertainment, Bentley accepts despite the unconventional nature of the job. The models will charm guests and provide eye candy rather than pose for cameras. One model backs out at the last minute, forcing Bentley to ask Jah, his young protégé whom he loves like a son, to fill the spot. At the party, Jah meets Seth Sinclair, the hottest African American movie star in the country. Seth is married, closeted, and dangerous, but Jah falls hard for him anyway. Bentley watches his surrogate son walk into a potentially devastating situation. The modeling agency owner must use all his experience and paternal instincts to protect Jah from a romance that could destroy both their lives. The stakes climb higher as the relationship deepens and threatens to expose secrets that powerful people will kill to protect.
Genres: fiction, romance, african-american, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-romance
Setting: Miami, South Beach
Period: 21st-century
304 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content, homophobia