Darker: Prequel by M. S. Parker

I came to New York City five years ago to put my horrid childhood behind me, but every day I feel the past breathing down my neck. I’m stuck in a dead-end job, existing rather than living. Luckily, all that is about to change in an unusual way, as a turn of events takes me to a place, I never knew existed.
Working as a bouncer at the male strip club, Ladies’ Choice, Nyx Phoenix volunteers to help a coworker track his boyfriend’s comings and goings. Calling on skills she never realized she had, she finds herself on the path to a destiny she thought would forever be out of her reach.