title: Ingenue
author: Christian, Alexandra
description: Never fall in love with a hoofer. That's the advice given to Stefan -- advice he immediately ignores when he falls head-over-heels in love with burlesque dancer Rose, the shimmying, corseted star of the Footlight Theatre. But wicked, wounded Rose is far out of the humble stagehand's reach.
  
  Rose has stars in her eyes -- and bruises on her face. As she suffers abuse at the hands of a cruel patron, she dreams of the day when she'll find her way out of her nightmare and into the arms of the passionate, protective Stefan.
  
  Inside scoop: This book contains scenes of domestic violence before the heroine fights back and finds her true hero.