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When new dancer Anna isn’t nervous as hell around her ice queen ballet mentor Victoria, she’s falling in love with the beautiful and powerful woman. This age-gap, workplace lesbian romance is a sizzling, award-winning page-turner, whether you’re into ballet or not. Anna is the newest member of an elite ballet…

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Who can resist a beautiful, direct, competent, gifted, and feared woman? Victoria is all those things, earning her the title of Queen in the ballet world. Anna is a young, adorable, rambling, dubious ballerina and appears to have the raw talent to be the most talented prima since Victoria.

Interest transforms into attraction, and theirs is hot enough to melt the ice on Rockefeller’s rink. They restrain themselves as long as possible, but the necessity of touching one another for professional purposes quickly turns into more.

Their sexual tension might be as high as the mast on the Empire State…

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