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2) Sabrina
Author
Series
Big sky dreams volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native New York City after more than a decade abroad--in Dubai, with a man she recalls only as the Sheikh--but it's unclear why exactly she's come back. Did things go bad for her? Do the barely discernible rifts in her routine suggest that something else is percolating under the surface?
8) Fishnet
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Debut novel in which a woman's search for her missing sister leads her into the world of contemporary sex work. Rona Leonard was only twenty-years-old when she walked out of her sister Fiona's flat and disappeared. Six years later--worn down by a tedious job, childcare, and an aching absence in her life--Fiona's mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that Rona had been working as a prostitute before she vanished. Driven to discover the...
Author
Series
Lily Bound novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a client of Lily Bound, an elite sex salon in the Blood Night District of Seattle, is found murdered, the owner knows something evil is happening. Then comes the news that the Souljacker, a tattoo-artist-turned-vampire, has escaped from an institution for criminally deranged Supernaturals. It is also alleged that he is hunting and killing everyone he has ever inked. Lily O'Connell, a succubus and owner of Lily Bound has one of the Souljacker's...
11) Mud lilies
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The night fourteen-year-old Chanie Nyrider ran away from her abusive parents, she was saved by an older woman who eventually offered her a new life working as a prostitute. With nowhere to turn, Chanie was drawn into Edmonton's dark underbelly, where she survived until arrested four years later. She was given two options: jail or a high school program for troubled youth. Chanie reluctantly agrees to attend the program so that she can maintain her...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
13) Piercing
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Reed leaves his wife and infant son to go on a business trip when he's actually planning a meticulous murder. He checks into a hotel and calls a prostitute as his unsuspecting victim. But Jackie is more than he bargained for, and after an unexpected disruption, the balance of power sways. Who's playing whom? As the night wears on, it becomes a nightmare of blood that will bond the two forever.
14) Hired
Author
Series
Happy endings volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For a man who makes his living pleasuring women, what happens when the only pay-out worth having is love? Faith Abigail Charles has always done the right thing. So when her mother runs for mayor of New Orleans, Faith puts her law career on hold to help her win. But when tensions run high, Faith trades one kind of heat for another-in the arms of a hard-bodied stranger. He's everything a woman dreams of in a lover. So much so that her one-night stand...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The sole witness to the slaughter of eight young prostitutes at a house of refuge near Covent Garden, Hero Jarvis, daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis, joins forces with Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, to investigate the massacre, following a trail of danger that takes them from London's seedy underbelly to the highest levels of society.
Author
Series
People vs. Cashmere novels volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This hilarious, colorful portrait of a prostitute navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Jmiaa, a prostitute in Casablanca, lives alone with her daughter. A woman of strong character and quick wit, she doesn't hold back when describing the world around her: her lover Chaïba, a crude, wordless brute, or Halima, her depressed fellow prostitute who reads the Qur'an between clients, or Mouy, her mother with implacable...
18) Sistah for sale
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013, c2008
Language
English
Description
Sienna, her father dead and her mother deported, is raised in Miami's prostitution scene by her dad's business partner, Chatman, and enters the business herself with plans to earn her independence, but she soon finds herself in a battle with Chatman who is equally determined not to let her go.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mickey Haller gets the text, 'Call me ASAP - 187,' and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The secret life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world."--Dust jacket.
Traces the remarkable life of the head of post-World War II Paris' most exclusive finishing school, tracing her origins as an impoverished Jewish girl from the city of Angers and discussing the controversies that made her one of the world's most wanted women.
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