title: Bright Lights
author: Jackson, Katrina
description: Chanté is a broke college student, waiting tables at a strip club on the wrong side of town called The Petal, hoping one day to be on the main stage herself. She goes to classes, goes to the club and sometimes hangs out with her roommate Kenny, but besides that, she doesn't have much of a life to speak of. That is until one day a mysterious man with great facial hair strolls into The Petal and turns her world upside down and she unwittingly shakes him up a bit in return. Before Asif was a devastatingly handsome, albeit emotionally careless, spy and Chanté had yet to become the in-demand hacker with a lot of exotic dancing on the side, he was a newbie agent with a lot to prove and she was dreaming about what it would be like to have all eyes on her. They find each other long before they even know what to do with love, but they lay a solid foundation of teasing sexual tension and cash payments for a job very well done.