Jake Whitney is working his way through college shaking his body and baring it all for strangers three times nightly at The Velvet Joystick lounge. It's nice work if you can get it. The money's good and so are the women, but temptations sneak up after dark and make it oh so very hard for a boy to crack those textbooks come daylight. And there's the drugs, of course, and the booze, and, oh yeah, the mobsters that want Jake to move considerably more than his torso.

Jake soon finds himself torn between a fiery romance with a stunning young girl and an electrifying, forbidden affair with a dangerous older woman who harbors a secret that could cost Jake his life. As he faces a deadly ultimatum in the shadows of the criminal underworld, he must find a way to reconcile love, lust, and survival on the road to happily ever after.