One step forward. Two steps back. Spin. Breathe. Don't break.
Samantha Blessing Carter had learned to dance long before she could dream.
In her world, movement was survival every spin a way to escape, every beat a heartbeat louder than the chaos she grew up in.
But nothing not her late nights cleaning floors, not the bruises hidden under leggings, not the hunger she danced through had prepared her for him.
Mateo Rodriguez.
A name whispered in fear. A man carved from sin. The owner of Inferno Studios the only place in New York where legends were made… and sometimes buried.
She didn't know why he watched her.
Why the shadows curled around him like silk.
Or why his touch made her world spin harder than any pirouette.
But Samantha was about to find out:
In his world, dance isn't just passion.
It's power.
And the wrong step… could cost her everything.