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Thanks all. I'm not at all wed to the title. (I think sub-consciously I may have been trying to glom a little of American Sniper's popularity.) And yeah, I think anything with 'Ballerina' in the title is not going to sound suspenseful. The MC (Lily) is delusional in her thinking that she's a prospect to make it in the big-time ballet world. Her ex-lover (Jeremy) is an all-around bad influence. He wants back into her life and his wedge to do that is encouraging her "dream" (which is really a delusion, but Lily wouldn't think of it as such) of being a ballerina in the Royal Ballet. (He tells her he can help her get an audition there.) In the meantime Lily meets King Edmund Adyemi, a king of a tribe in Africa, who is in London driving a cab but also competing as a boxer.
The story has a lot of Lily being pulled between good (Edmund and rational thinking) and bad (Jeremy and flights into fantasy).
Lily is an unreliable narrator. Good intentioned but a mess. In that sense, I see her as being someone like the narrator in The Girl on the Train. And there is a murder (King Edmund's) that Lily tries to solve (and she suspects Jeremy of having committed). But the idea (from my perspective) is that Lily is so prone to fantasy that Jeremy might not even exist (he might be a figment of her imagination).
And this book has a lot of romance in it but no "happily ever after" ending so I can't call it Romantic Suspense. (And really it is suspense with a lot of romance.)
I'm going to get back to work on it.
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