Nothing Without Love: Dance Like This -Book I
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Kaye Dunham is a low-key girl from a small town. Attended for a degree in Contemporary Dance at Juilliard and now works as a dance teacher at the local school on the Upper East Side in Manhattan and lives with her cousin Toni and her sister Astrid in Brooklyn. But secretly (to no one except her sister and cousin), Kaye is a freestyle dancer and moves to the beat of her own drum.
After a handsome Casanova leaves Kaye hanging at her employer's charity ball, she is left with what she's had most of her life: self-doubt, internal chaos, and heartache. Soon after, she is hired outside the Seraphim Dance Academy as a private dance tutor for well known billionaire, Sebastian Bridges. Stubborn, hard-headed, pushy , and flirtatious, he proves to be a difficult student for Kaye. Yet, she can't help but be mesmerized and taken by his serious, yet charismatic nature. But when Kaye's troubled and haunting past comes back to bother her, will she bow out or dance her way to happiness?
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