The Dancer is book three in the Broken Slipper trilogy and even though we were left with a cliffhanger in The Patron this one is major so prepare yourself ...
Kaia is a tall, green-eyed blonde ballerina. When we met her in The Patron Kaia is spending all her waking hours dancing. By day she was working towards her dream to be a prima ballerina with the New York Ballet, but at night she danced at Club X ... as a stripper.
Due to a major scandal, the New York Ballet fired their prima ballerina, Honor, and the stage director and since none of the other dancers in the corps were good enough to take Honor's place, the majority of the dancers were fired leaving 30 spaces open.
When Kaia arrived with her friends, Ella and Eric for tryouts she looks on in terror as the new stage manager enters the room. It is none other than Calum. Calum not only knew that she was dancing outside of ballet which is prohibited, but who she had actually danced for privately and told he wanted to be her Petron.
Calum is tall and gorgeous with deep blue eyes. He is a billionaire and was a previous danseur with the New York Ballet whose ACL tear ended his dancing career. He is now CEO of Indica Tech and is the main benefactor of the New York Ballet. When he gets over his outrage and shock of finding "Cerise" in the line-up before him he decides to take advantage of the opportunity. He will make sure she gets her dream if she signs a contract for him to be her Patron and be available at his beck and call.
Callum broke everything off 31 days ago...her dancing career at NYB...their private arrangement being his private Dancer at his beck and call. He was being blackmailed into giving up Kaia and firing her as the prima ballerina at the New York Ballet, but he beat Honor at her own game, and now it's time to get Kaia back.
Callum is determined to win Kaia back. Even if that means being a 'boyfriend'. He had the apartment he bought for her redecorated looking more like a home instead of a high-end brothel ... strip pole, sex furniture, and sex toys galore. It even has a connecting door to his apartment. An apartment that no woman has ever been invited to.
I loved this book! It is very well written and the characters are very relatable. Vivian Wood drew me into this series like I am actually in the book and know these characters personally. Kaia's family - her father is insane, her sister a b!tch, and her mother is so beaten down and no help at all.
He and his brother Lucas may butt heads, but he is the only person Calum truly loves and will and has does anything for. Anita is a monster of another sort and the reason for Calum's damaged soul.
Calum is a time bomb waiting to explode. His anger is so overwhelming and he is so used to the women in his life who he had the misfortune to love to use it against him. But there is just something about Kaia that is like a breath of fresh air.
This book is action-packed and full of suspense. Do we still have to worry about her father? How will she deal with Crispin? Both Kaia and Calum came from very dysfunctional backgrounds and where Kaia keeps her head down to avoid being seen Calum had bottled it up so tight he could explode. This book is steamy hot with explicit sex scenes. For all of Calum's anger and dominant nature, he is quite gentle with Kaia making sure to take care to not hurt her.
You know this is a trilogy when you start reading. You expect there to be an event that leaves you on tenterhooks until the next book. BUT NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS DID I EXPECT THAT CLIFFHANGER!!!! Just wow! Can't wait to read the conclusion of Kaia and Calum's story in The Embrace!
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