What Francesca desires: the Lucchese Star—sixty carats of sapphire, as big as your fist.

What Francesca needs: to distract the security guard while her partner lifts the sapphire.

What Francesca craves: a mind-melting orgasm from the talented tongue and hands of the security guard.

What Francesca gets: not what she expected….

“Behind the Masque” originally appeared in Sex With Strangers (Black Lace Books, 2007) and was reprinted in Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 8 (Running Press, 2009).