A Certain Appeal

A sparkling contemporary re-telling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque.

1. A CERTAIN APPEAL by Vanessa King

SYNOPSIS

After a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. Now an executive assistant by day and stage kitten by night, she’s discovered a second home with the performers at Meryton, Manhattan’s top-tier burlesque venue. Love’s the last thing on her mind when she locks eyes with Will Darcy across the crowded club. The spark between them is undeniable—that is, until she overhears the uptight wealth manager call her merely ‘tolerable’.

Bennet is determined to write Darcy off, but once their besties fall head-over-heels, they’re thrown into each other’s orbit again and again. Each encounter begins to feel more heated than the last, but is their chemistry enough to topple that terrible first impression? What’s more, when a charming newcomer arrives on the scene with accusations against Darcy, his claims leave Bennet torn. And when a sudden development leaves Meryton’s fate in jeopardy, she will have to decide who to trust in time to salvage her design dreams, her heart, and the stage she shares with her found family...

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vanessa King is a spent two years picking up the peelings of the best in the NYC burlesque scene and has the glitter in her pumps to prove it.

She spent the oughts bouncing between the coasts, from Brooklyn to Seattle, with stops in Arkansas and Virginia before landing in Boulder, Colorado. She lives with her Ron Swanson-esque husband, paper craft-obsessed daughter, and an elderly feline gentleman whose life she's plotting to upend with the introduction of a kitten.
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When not writing, Vanessa enjoys reading, championing her favorite audiobooks, wielding a glue gun with unearned confidence, and the privilege of choosing her form of suffering with her fellow meat heads at Crossfit.

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