By the Book

By the Book

Blurb

Joey is an erotic romance novelist with a bad marriage behind her and lots of manuscripts with the words "insert sex here". Unfortunately, writing love scenes has become all work and no heat. Fly with her to Hawaii with her suitcase of "research materials" where she is hoping the change of scenery will be inspiring. She gets inspired all right! She meets Gray Hawk. He volunteers to help her work through her writer's block and rediscover her sensual muse...by the book.

Excerpt
Joey woke up in stages, enjoying the lingering images of her dream. Her body felt swollen and damp with unfulfilled desire. She didn't remember the last time she'd felt such strong arousal and it delighted her to realize she still could. Too bad the stimulation came from a dream of her sexy, short-term neighbor, Gray Hawk, and not the real thing.

She'd followed him to her house last night, waved goodbye, and then unloaded the groceries, eaten her chicken pasta, and passed out with exhaustion. She hadn't even taken time to unpack her clothes or research materials. She'd just pulled her sleep shirt out of her carryon and changed into it before falling across the bed and into a series of steamy fantasies centered on uncovering and exploring Gray's body.

Rolling over she looked at the clock and groaned-- four a.m., not even light out yet. Well, with the time difference, her body seemed to think it should be eight in the morning. Time to get up.

She saw a large hot tub in one corner. Tempting. But her body felt too energized and needy for a relaxing soak. Turning, she noticed an exotic outdoor shower built against the wall just outside the French doors and to the left. Small benches fashioned at different levels within a lava rock wall and a massage showerhead on a hose suggested enticing possibilities. Now this was more like it! After her dreams the night before, built around the temptation and inspiration of Gray's hard body, she wanted some form of physical satisfaction. She could take advantage of today's inspiration and put the showerhead to good use.

The warm and exotically scented night air teased her senses, enveloping her in its humid touch. She felt her arousal blossom, grow.

She'd turned the amber colored bug light on when she walked out the door, taking a moment to glance over the walls, she reassured herself she wouldn't be seen. There were no close neighbors who could glance out a window and see into this private oasis. Too dark to see much of anything away from the light, and remembering all the plants and bushes surrounding the back of the house, she felt comfortable stripping off her clothes. She could see Gray's house up on the hill but it was pretty far away and there were no lights on in the windows. She should be safe.

Joey's body blushed in anticipation. Secure in the knowledge no one would see her, she still thought of Gray asleep in the house overlooking her shower garden and her toes curled tightly. Her body still tingled from the combination of meeting and then dreaming of hot sex with Gray. She hadn't lost the faint throb of attraction in the hours since she first met him. She turned the water on and stepped under the warm pulsing stream. Oh, that felt good!

Moaning, she closed her eyes as she allowed the water to pummel her body. For a few minutes she just stood there, letting the stream run over her from head to toe. She reached her hands up to brush back her wet hair and then moved on to detach the showerhead. She arched her back, stretched her tight muscles. With slow anticipation she brought the spray down to pulse over her front. She picked up the new bar of scented soap resting in a tray and used one hand to run the fragrant bar over and around her neck and shoulders, and then moved to her breasts. Her nipples were still taut with her remembered dream and she hissed in frustration. She propped her foot up on the low ledge, and moved her hand and the bar of soap between her legs, then followed with the pounding water coming from the jets on the showerhead. Her body tight with growing need, she reveled in the sensations of the water as it pulsed against her and manipulated her clit. Damn! She needed this. Heat and sensation combined with an active imagination, her very private vision of paradise.

Gray focused first on the porch light and then shifted the telescope lens to a wider view--a view that had him shifting immediately to the edge of his seat. Joey wasn't asleep. Instead, he found her with the powerful scope, displayed in spectacular glory within the small circle--naked and taking a shower on the outside lanai. The master bedroom porch was fully visible from this floor. Or...at least it was with the telescope. You really shouldn't invade her privacy like this, he told himself sternly. Too late now.