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Finally he found what he wanted and pulled out two thick books,trade paperbacks she didn’t recognize.As Darryl came back to the bed,she exchanged a look with Scott,who covered his mouth with the blankets to hide his grin.Interested in spite of herself,she sat up,letting the covers fall to expose her bare breasts as she reached for the books.

“What is this?”she asked,taking one of them.A glance at thecovers showed they were the same book,but it wasn’t anything she’d published.It was way too long,for starters,too thick and too large.It was a perfect bound paperback,probably self-published,with a glossy cover and tight trimming.

There,on the cover,was her name and the title.Deny Nothing—her first fan fiction story,the longest thing she’d ever written.She usually added“to date”whenever she said that whenever a reader asked,but who was she kidding?What had Darryl said?Over nine hundred pages in print?

Damn.