Isabella Natale is living a double life. By day she turns outdesserts in the family bakery. But at night she transformsinto The Crimson Rose, Chicago's hottest exotic dancer,an enigmatic siren whose velvet mask and G-string drivemen wild. Nobody knows about her secret—not evenNick Santori, the strip club's hot new bodyguard…and herfirst crush. He'd always treated little "Izzy" as just anothersweet kid. But there's nothing sweet about his sizzlingreaction to Rose…. So what's a girl to do but show the man of her dreamsthat while it's okay to look, it's much better to touch?