Erin Grant

Erin is the main character of the novel. She is a relatively young woman, probably in her late 20s or early 30s. She has a young daughter named Angela, but is embroiled in a custody dispute with Angela's father, Darrell, throughout the novel. She lost her former job with the FBI because of Darrell's criminal record. She lost custody of her daughter and will do anything necessary to get her back. She is forced to take up stripping when office jobs will not suffice to pay her costly legal bills for her child custody case.

Erin does not particularly like her stripper job, but she is good at it. She is the best dancer at the club: dancer being the key word—Erin does not "strip," she dances. The music that plays when she dances is very important to her. She loses herself in her music...