Married Men Pay

Every married man pays. This one paid with his life.

Cass Byrne is twenty-nine, the hostess at the best chophouse in Clayton, and very good at a very bad game. With her partner Rafe behind a long lens, she seduces rich married men, and then she makes them pay to make the photographs disappear. Four men in three years. Nobody gets hurt. Nobody goes to the police.

Then she sets her sights on Julian Ashby, the forty-seven-year-old banker who married into the oldest money in St. Louis, and his wife finds her first.

Celeste Crane Ashby is pale, gracious, and terrified. She says her husband is trying to kill her. She offers Cass fifty thousand dollars to stay in his bed and find out how.

But Julian isn’t what Cass expected. Neither is Celeste. And when Julian is found shot dead in his loft above Washington Avenue, the key fob that opened his door is Cass’s own.

Now a homicide detective who never lets go is closing in, Rafe has vanished with a secret, and the only person who seems to believe Cass is the widow who once paid her to sleep with her husband.

From the riverfront lofts to the old-money mansions of the Central West End, Married Men Pay is a scorching, twist-filled erotic thriller about money, desire, and the people who decide what we are for. A standalone novel in The St. Louis Nights Thrillers.

For readers 18+ only. This book contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults, strong language, blackmail, and murder.