The Velvet Rope

Life is a party.When Tiffany Johnson, a street-smart publicist at Platinum Images, decides to launch Teaz Entertainment and open a club, she's setting out to be the queen of Philly nightlife. Keeping it in the family, she partners up with her fiance, Malik, and her sister, Kamille, and counts on her friend DJ Essence to bring the noise. Investors seem to be lining up and the buzz is gettin' loud.Be careful who you invite.When Tiffany finds out that Malik and Kamille had an affair -- and that it might not be the only secret they share -- she spirals downward and gets swept up in two unexpectedly erotic affairs of her own. Awakening to a new kind of sexual freedom and reeling from betrayal, Tiffany is raw and vulnerable. So vulnerable that she doesn't realize that her new lovers are involved in more than kinky sex, and that they might take her new club down with them...unless she takes them down first.

Brenda L. Thomas, a Philadelphia-based marketing professional, is the Essence bestselling author of two previous novels, Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide and Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality. She is also the author of a short story in Four Degrees of Heat. Visit her website at www.phillywriter.com.