Scarred billionaire Elias Hart wants one night with a blindfolded stranger…but ends up with his best friend’s all-grown-up little sister in book one of Jackie Ashenden’s Playing for Pleasure duet!

My billions can buy me anything…but they can’t stop the women who beg for my touch from cringing at my scars. That’s why the blindfolds never come off… In the dark, I can be the golden athlete I was—before the part of me that cared about others was burned away.

When I recognize the striking woman in my hotel suite, I know I should send her packing. But my best friend’s little sister has grown up in the most enticing way since I disappeared from her life ten years ago. And I don’t want Vesta going to some other “stranger” to lose her virginity. As long as she keeps the blindfold on, I can give her the pleasure she craves…

But the touch of Vesta’s skin, her plush lips and taut body drive me wild. And her fierce nature stirs unwelcome emotions. Vesta is marking my scorched soul as her own. But when the mask comes off, will she run from the beast whose heart she now holds in her hands?

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Read all the books in Jackie Ashenden’s Playing for Pleasure duet:

Book 1:** In the Dark