La Pervette (ON HOLD)

Harmony Carson is a cabaret singer with a smile like sunshine and a voice dipped in honeyed jazz. Freshly heartbroken and reeling from a betrayal she didn't see coming, she's fled Brisbane and thrown herself into the chaos of Melbourne's cabaret scene. With long swamp-witch green hair and a heart held together by glitter tape, she's trying to write a number that doesn't feel like a lie.

Enter Edith Levi: burlesque drag king, theatre tech, dominatrix with a piercing kink, and absolute nightmare to work with. Tall, sharp, and devastatingly sarcastic, Edith has no patience for Harmony's bubbly musical theatre vibes or private-school charm. But for all her eye-rolling, she can't stop watching Harmony on stage-or imagining how she'd look under her hands, shaking in more ways than one.

What starts as mutual disdain turns molten. Between backstage bickering, stolen moments in dressing rooms, and power struggles that turn far too erotic, Harmony and Edith find themselves tangled in more than just fishnets.

But trust is hard when your heart's been broken and your body starts craving someone who is emotionally unstable ...