You're supposed to tip the stripper at your friend's bachelorette party, not take them home. But that's exactly what Tess does. Her life feels like it's on pause. She's tired of drowning in her seemingly endless sea of fears but doesn't know how to get from under them. Most days, she doesn't even want to think them. So sleeping with the hot young stripper at Club Bang-Cock seems like the perfect distraction. Until it becomes much more than that. Elijah is in school to become a preacher--something his parents want for him. But when he accidentally lets a secret slip, they abruptly stop paying for college during his senior year. Broke and desperate, he grabs the chance to finance his education by stripping at Club Bang-Cock, and he quickly makes peace with it. After all, he's not working there to pick up women like most of the other guys. But a compelling woman walks into the club and changes everything he thinks about himself, and about his future.