Chapter 4

“Never. I couldn’t put a complete sentence together if I tried.”

And then he told me about his cousin, who dabbled in short erotic fiction. “Mostly erotic love stories between men and women, and sometimes more. She’s quite good at it.”

“Beverly Brae.”

The woman delighted the world with such naughty titles as Do with My Skin What You Will, Save Me from These Chains, and Dire Desire. His cousin had hit the best-seller’s list numerous times, fulfilling sexual fantasies for her across-the-globe readers. I had read two or three of her fun-filled erotic adventures, enjoying her masculine, edgy, and bear-like male heroes, which were total turn-ons for me. Not once had she bored me. Rather, Beverly Brae, just as I had assumed happened with all of her other readers, had me in the steely clutch of her storytelling travels and entertained me to the gills, without failure, on every occasion.