Wannabe by Christa DeClue

Amber James can be yours for a price. Or that’s what she tells people. Her job is to weave a fantasy that makes you spend money. And she’s really good at her job…mostly. Until she meets a hardened Detective, whose sole purpose in life is to make sure she doesn’t succeed at her goals. It’s a race against time to make sure that all of her secrets stay buried and that no one else in St. Louis dies. She needs to decide if she can work with the detective without losing her heart.

Ryan Stone is obsessed with keeping people safe. He’s dedicated his life to protecting and serving. His ideas of happiness were blown out of the water by a wannabe prostitute. He failed to protect her once before and it eats away at him. His demons are riding him hard and now, people all over St. Louis are dying right in front of their noses and the people responsible are like smoke. He has to decide if he can put the past aside and see what’s right in front of him. Working together might be the only way to save his city but the price for that might be his heart, too.

Obsession and love go hand in hand but so do secrets and lies. They must decide whether to overcome all of the obstacles in their way to save the lives of the people in the city or they can let the past and all of their secrets stay buried. Will drugs and secrets ruin their lives or will they work together and save each other? Or will more people die because of the new old enemy that is rearing its head?