No matter, its entertaining and I couldn't put it down, but I did get to the end and feel a bit "hmmm, I don't know about how real this is". But as she turns to her teens she to prostitution, which has nothing to do with the abuse that she endured as an adolescent. Lisa is able to capture and give voice to the different characters in the story as well as developing Anneka's voice as she matures. She faced the hypocrisy of men around desiring sex, someone to play to act, to be available, but at the same time thinking it is indecent and unacceptable.

Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. I. applies all his talent and experience to the world of fiction by creating the epic love story of Power and Beauty. She eventually finds herself working in a strip club at the age of 19, and her boyfriend becomes her pimp, controlling her every move and taking all of her money. From there Annika worked her way up to the high-end parlours, agencies and private work in various parts of Australia and internationally. I feel as though she should have been more forth right and kept her upbringing out of the book and sold it as more of a under world choice to make fast money in her life than to use her experiences as her security blanket.Combine this with some inherent double standards, and it grates even more on your nerves: If Cleeve blew up her money without thinking it through, it was just “letting her hair down”; if other women in her profession did the same thing, it was chalked up to “bad judgement”.

In this book Annika reveals the truth of a sex worker’s life; the clients, the girls, the parlour bosses, the rip-off merchants, the drug deaths, the white slavery, the discrimination, the corrupt police and politicians, the exotic travel and the money. I'm not sure i could compare this to any of the erotica i've listened to as it's not necessarily erotic, but the truth is quite a turn on. Annika Cleeve has an alphabet of qualifications behind her name, and during her studies she spent 18 years as a sex worker, plying her trade all over the world. After the death of his mother, Charlotte, Paul “Power” Clay allows himself to be guided by Slim, a local businessman.A series of death threats from Ruby's violent ex-husband John forces the women to ask for something they distrust - police protection.