When Vincent Gambuzzo, the not-so-bright proprietor of the Tiffany Gentleman's Club in Panama City, Florida, loses his business playing poker, his headliner, exotic dancer Sierra Lavotini, faces a crisis. The new sign out front reads BIG MIKE'S HOUSE OF BOOTY, and Big Mike's new business strategy leaves a little to be desired in the class department and even less to the imagination of the increasingly rambunctious clientele.As the dancers' unofficial leader and mother hen, Sierra le...

WHAT STELLA WANTSA successful P.I. business. A sexy man she can love and trust. Relatives who stay safely at home. And good friends she can count on.WHAT STELLA'S GOTAn anemic trickle of clients. An infuriatingly secretive (but hot!) former special forces soldier who may or may not be around in the morning. A feisty elderly aunt whose love life is w…a…ay more on track than Stella's. And an old high-school rival who's just hired Stella, only to be blown up i...

A Sexy Stripper-Sleuth Bares It All to Catch a Cold-Blooded Killer in The Miracle Strip by Nancy BartholomewThe whip-smart Sierra Lavotini is the hottest act on Panama City's strip scene. She's the headliner at the bare-all bar, the Tiffany Club. Besides her bodacious business, Sierra's life is fairly simple. And that's the way she likes it. But when a good friend, Denise, seeks her help, Sierra's life takes a murderous turn.Seems Denise's furry friend Arlo has just ...

She's just been shot at, arrested and thrown in jailBut trust former police officer Stella Valocchi–compared to last week, things are looking up.Last week she: a) caught her cop boyfriend in bed with her best friend, b) kidnapped the boyfriend's dog and c) ran for home, only to find the man who once left her at the altar presiding over her favorite uncle's funeral.This week Stella's hunting her uncle's killer. Being arrested on bogus charges just means she'...

Madison. Becca. Porsche. Alexa. Vanessa. Chloe.The It Girls They're rich, fabulous…and dangerously underestimated.It Girl: Porsche RothschildMission: Pose as Hollywood big shot Jeremy Reins's girlfriend and find out who's making threats against the movie star.Being beautiful and rich simply wasn't enough – I needed to get a life. Then the Gotham Roses asked little-old-me to join their high-society crime-fighting team.

The Philadelphia Inquirer named Nancy Bartholomew's first Sierra Lavotini novel, The Miracle Strip, one of the year's best mysteries and Romantic Times calls Sierra "a magnificent, take-no-prisoners heroine."Now, in Drag Strip, the exotic dancer again proves herself a pro as she strips down to her G-string and searches for a killer...The only thing hotter than the supercharged engines at the Dead Lakes Motor Speedway is the special appearan...

Exotic dancer Sierra Lavotini's latest brainstorm to help the Tiffany Gentleman's Club turn a profit is a disaster. Sierra, headliner for the classiest strip joint in Panama City, Florida, and the club's owner, Vincent Gambuzzo, invited a gallery of porn actresses to guest star on the Tiffany stage. It's a gutsy plan, considering that most of these silicone-enhanced creatures don't have much in the way of true talent. As Sierra likes to say, at the Tiffany dancing consists of more than T&A...

"Just once I'd like to have a plan go my way. Is that too much to ask?"Smart-mouthed P.I. Stella Valocchi is finally in business, with the office and the aggravating employee--former fiancé Jake Carpenter--to prove it. And when a client with a sob story hires them to find her brother, success is one missing man away--until the search becomes hazardous to Stella's life. Threats, gunshots and car chases won't put her off the case. Neither will Jake's insistence that they be full partn...

Sophie Mazaratti moved far away to escape the mess her sleazy ex left behind. But he's found her bolt-hole–and so have his worst enemies, the mob.What's more, they think she's working with him–and so does the FBI. Now Sophie's surrounded by bodies, arrest threats and one damned attractive police detective. And though the fed-up schoolteacher's pretty sure the woman-needs-a-man-like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle saying is true, she's also sure she needs somebody on her side. Because she's ...

"Just once I'd like to have a plan go my way. Is that too much to ask?"Smart-mouthed P.I. Stella Valocchi is finally in business, with the office and the aggravating employee–former fiancé Jake Carpenter–to prove it. And when a client with a sob story hires them to find her brother, success is one missing man away–until the search becomes hazardous to Stella's life. Threats, gunshots and car chases won't put her off the case. Neither will Jake's insistence that they be full partner...

Sophie Mazaratti moved far away to escape the mess her sleazy ex left behind. But he's found her bolt-hole--and so have his worst enemies, the mob. What's more, they think she's working with him--and so does the FBI. Now Sophie's surrounded by bodies, arrest threats and one damned attractive police detective. And though the fed-up schoolteacher's pretty sure the woman-needs-a-man-like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle saying is true, she's also sure she needs somebody on her side. Because she's about...

Madison. Becca. Porsche. Alexa. Vanessa. Chloe.The It GirlsThey're rich, fabulous...and dangerously underestimated.It Girl: Porsche RothschildMission: Pose as Hollywood big shot Jeremy Reins's girlfriend and find out who's making threats against the movie star.Being beautiful and rich simply wasn't enough — I needed to get a life. Then the Gotham Roses asked little-old-me to join their high-society crime-fighting team. But I'm so not ...