The Prince, The King, & Me

Simone Avery knows how to make legends look untouchable.

As a makeup artist, handler, and aspiring singer, she's spent years standing just outside the spotlight-fixing faces, guarding secrets, carrying backstage disasters on her back, and slipping out of hotel rooms before morning. In Prince's world, Simone is desired, protected, and hidden. He knows her body like a song he wrote in the dark, but no matter how sweet the music sounds, he has never once called her his.

Then Simone takes a job on Michael Jackson's 1987 BAD Tour.

What begins as a professional opportunity quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Michael notices the things Simone has trained herself to conceal: her voice, her ambition, her loneliness, and the quiet ache beneath her glamour. Where Prince is magnetic, possessive, and impossible to forget, Michael is gentle, guarded, and careful enough to make Simone feel seen in ways that frighten her.

Caught between two of music's most powerful men, Simone is forced to confront the difference between being wanted in secret and being chosen in truth.

But fame has teeth. Desire has consequences. And when private passion becomes public scandal, Simone must decide whether she is still willing to be somebody's secret, somebody's muse, somebody's midnight mistake-or whether it's finally time to step into the light under her own name.

The Prince, the King, & Me is a sensual, music-soaked romance about sex, secrecy, ambition, scandal, and one woman learning that being desired by legends means nothing if she can't belong to herself.