Story By Marilyn Macauley
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Marilyn Macauley

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HOW TO MURDER A ROYAL
Updated at Oct 15, 2026, 10:50
By day, Phoebe is the untouchable queen of Woodlands & Co., a woman who rules her furniture empire with an iron fist and fires people for a single fingerprint on a drawer. By night, she becomes Desire, the masked dancer at Manhattan's most exclusive club, The Secret Den, where billionaires beg for her attention and no man is ever allowed to touch her. She has one rule: she breaks them before they can break her. Then Brian walks in. A self-made tech billionaire and the Prince of Ravendale who walked away from his crown, Brian is a predator hiding behind tailored suits and a flawless public image. Cold, calculating, and carrying secrets darker than his reputation, he has been bored for years. Until a woman in a lace mask smiles at the room with a smile he recognizes, because he wears the same one. What begins as a game of cat and mouse in the dim corners of the VIP room becomes something neither of them planned. Phoebe finds herself craving the one thing she swore she would never offer again: surrender. Brian finds himself fascinated by the woman beneath the mask, and he has all the patience in the world. But Desire isn't the only one hiding behind a disguise, and some secrets don't stay buried. When control slips and the masks come off, one of them will learn the hard way what happens when you play with fire. Some people fuck around. Some people find out.
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