Summary
At the Rising Sun, desire is currency—and innocence is a liability.
Harper Dupre arrives in New Orleans with her life in ruins: her art stolen, her future gutted, her family’s love withdrawn. Desperation leads her to the Rising Sun, an exclusive house where men pay to be undone and women learn how power feels in their hands.
Behind silk curtains and candlelight, Harper is taught how to command attention, how to pull surrender from a single touch, how to make longing ache. But the house remembers. Its walls whisper with the presence of Éveline—a woman claimed by obsession, her rage bound to pearls, blood, and stone.
As Harper’s talent deepens, so does the voice guiding her body and her hunger, blurring instinct and possession. Each night tightens the house’s hold.
In a city that feeds on beauty and secrecy, Harper must choose: escape with her soul intact—or embrace the power that refuses to let her go.
Some women sell desire.
Others become it.
Mature