The Good Girl Effect

Bestseller Cate opens her Salacious Legacy series, a spin-off of her Salacious Players Club series, with this ultrasteamy romance introducing the next generation of the Parisian sex club’s owners and members. Among the new owners is widowed father Jack St. Claire, who has spent the two years since his wife Emmaline’s death throwing himself into his work. After bookseller Camille Aubert finds a love letter from Jack to Emmaline tucked inside a book in the used bookstore in Giverny where she works, she is moved by the depth of feeling it expresses and decides to return it to the sender. When she arrives at Jack’s doorstep, however, she’s mistaken as a nanny candidate for his five-year-old daughter, Bea, whom she quickly comes to adore after taking the job on a whim. On her first night off, she spies Jack heading into his sex club and, curiosity piqued, persuades him to teach her the basics of BDSM. Casual kinky sex soon transforms into a committed relationship—but when Jack learns the truth about why Camille sought him out, their love could be in jeopardy. Cate intercuts the red hot erotic plot with plenty of business drama among the new owners of the club. Returning fans and newcomers alike are sure to be titillated. (Sept.)