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Dancing in the Dark

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Hazel has never knew anything but to dance. The stage is her friend, the crowd is her lover. The roses they throw are her only indulgence. But when the curtain drops, Hazel is faced with reality. A man and a teenager, Neal and Henry, who try to seduce her and use her for their own horrid pleasures. When Blake, a circus director, buys Hazel from Henry, her life is switched upside down.

Hazel is thrown headlong into an outrageous adventure, and when Henry and Neal decide they're not ready to let go-will she have to risk everything to survive?

Will Hazel allow herself to fall in love with a circus that holds more danger than dance?
Or will this ballerina finally lose her touch?

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