“VaVa Violet” DiCosta was the hottest burlesque dancer in all of 1942 LA until a stalker's bullet ended her short life. Stuck in limbo, she watches time pass through the eyes of the club she died in. Nearly seventy years later, best friends Parker Thomas and Ciprian Svetski fall in love with the style of the old building and decide to return it to its former glory and reopen the old burlesque. Problem is, they know business, not talent, and the show doesn't own up to its history. Violet's given a second chance in someone else's body. She shows the men a thing or two about burlesque, as well as how to sell seduction. She decides to seduce them while she's at it, but never imagined she'd lose her heart to them. Or that her killer wouldn't be happy about her return.

After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before "striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming," in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city. Provocative and challenging, Burlesque West combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize.

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She’s on the run from a horrific past. He’s on the verge of a riches to rags nightmare. Until one chance encounter changes everything… Burlesque bar owner Freya Cortez, leads a razzle-dazzle life until she learns her mother has just weeks to live. Now she is forced to juggle a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity with the torment of her far-from-perfect childhood. Millionaire party-boy Max Tindall is facing financial ruin, even his most prized possession is at risk—his home. But a casual encounter with Freya gives him one last chance to turn his life around. Though Freya has vowed to never fall in love, even she can’t deny Max is the kindest person she’s ever met, the one man to challenge her “no settling” rule. But how can a woman so fiercely independent ignore the fact that there's something gravely amiss with him? Something even he hasn’t noticed. Something bound to destroy both their lives. For fans of heat with heart romance, and It Ends With Us — Colleen Hoover. Curl up with The Last in Line to experience this epic romance like no other! Books in the Love at Last series: Book 1: The Last Heartbeat - Agathe and Luke Book 2: The Last Place You Look - Sophie and Orlando. Book 3: The Last in Line - Freya and Max. This book is for you if you love: Opposites attract, Contemporary, Workplace Romance novels. Heat with heart steam, and story with all the heart-wrenching depth! Want more? How about a riches to rags twist, from an OWN voice author. A multicultural and interracial cast. Touches of tragedy, with an uplifting purpose. HEA/ Happy Ever After ending. Self-discovery. Angst with bursts of humor. A big city, Australian setting. A strong, intelligent, independent heroine. Wounded characters with a second chance at life. A book with a heartthrob hero that “gets it” and wants his woman to be whole. Steamy!