Cassandra

by Jean Rance

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Audio Book

Blurb

She was supposed to be a secret. She became a sensation.

Cassandra grows up believing her father is dead—until the truth begins to surface and her mother is killed in a tragic accident. Haunted by guilt and running from abuse, Cassandra takes a job at the struggling Blue Angel Club, where a desperate gamble turns her into “the Virgin Stripper”—a mysterious performer no one is allowed to touch.

The act saves the club and makes Cassandra famous. But fame attracts dangerous attention. When a powerful billionaire falls in love with her, Cassandra discovers a truth that ties him to her mother’s death—and changes everything.

Secrets, betrayal, obsession, and revenge collide in a story where innocence is a performance and nothing is what it seems.

About the Author

Jean Rance is an emerging Filipino author whose work occupies the uneasy intersection of glamour, passion, violence, and moral ambiguity. Raised between provincial stillness and the sensory intensity of Manila, she writes with an acute awareness of social contradiction: innocence alongside exploitation, loyalty beside betrayal, faith tested by survival.

She first gained attention for fiction that reads like dark telenovelas shaped by literary realism. Her protagonists are often young women navigating power structures they did not choose—nightclubs, elite business families, fractured homes—yet refusing to remain passive within them. Rance is particularly noted for her unsentimental portrayal of female desire and vulnerability. Her characters are flawed, strategic, and at times ruthless, resisting easy moral categorization.

Cassandra the Virgin Stripper

“Don’t scream.”

In the smoke-filled dimness of the Blue Angel Club, the rhythm of the music pulses like a heartbeat. Cassandra stands behind the curtain, adjusting the delicate white feathered mask that has become her shield. In a world where everything is for sale, she has become the ultimate enigma: a woman who bares her soul under the neon lights, yet remains strictly untouchable.

From the shadows of the VIP lounge, Alessandro Larrazabal watches. He is a man accustomed to getting what he wants, but the woman on stage is a ghost from a past he hasn’t yet reconciled. As Cassandra steps into the spotlight, she isn’t just performing; she is navigating a dangerous game of survival where one wrong move could expose the secrets she’s buried deep within.

Innocence is the Performance

As the truth behind her mother’s death begins to unravel, Cassandra realizes that the lights of the stage offer no protection from the darkness of obsession. In a city of mirrors, she must decide if she is the hunter or the prey before the final curtain falls.

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