Jazz pianist Dez Batiste knows this all too well. It's taken
him years to return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
swept away what mattered most. His musician's soul is still
lost in the wreckage, but he's after a brand-new future by
opening an Uptown jazz club. Too bad the distractingly sexy
Eleanor Theriot is getting in his way. Sure, she may be
protecting her community, but there's passion underneath
that upper-class exterior of hers.
With a little seduction from Dez, that passion sizzles to
life and soon they're enjoying an exclusive
friends-with-benefits arrangement. The intensity between
them reawakens his music and Dez knows they're more than
temporary. Now to convince Eleanor to bend those rules she
lives by…