Witchhazel

[ Warning: Mature Content ]
“Harper, stop undressing me with your eyes. The plot isn’t going that way… YET.”

Harper McKenzie, a newbie web novel author, has a problem — she struggles with romance scenes. As someone with almost nonexistent real-life experience in the matter, she can’t get the intimate chemistry right, and those chapters always come out dry and cringy.

Fortunately for her, Harper finds a freelance editor willing to workshop her writing. But the surprise? That editor turns out to be her childhood friend and the very first crush of her life.

What happens now when he offers her personal lessons on how to write the hottest romance … and love scenes?

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Note: this is a fun, cozy, sweet story with a low-drama plot. No love triangles, no misunderstandings, no memory loss / car accidents / terminal illnesses / etc.. Mature content abounds, starting out soft but heats up quickly. You’ve been warned!

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Sneak Peek:

He slid her bra over her shoulders and, with impossibly quick and skilled work, tied the lacy garment around her wrists. “Spread your legs wider,” he ordered.

Harper’s already faltering heartbeat faltered some more. The command in his tone was foreign, but it crashed over her like a heat wave, and even though she could barely begin to picture how salacious she must look, with her hands bound and thighs spread wide like an offering to be ravished, she could feel the scorching need coiling hotter and hotter in her core. Her body obeyed eagerly on its own accord, bringing herself fully open just like she was told.

Eli grinned. Moving between her legs, he trailed hot kisses along her inner thigh, leaving sizzling little fires crackling in its wake. “Good girl. Now, what should your character say next?” A finger glided over her wet and wanting flesh in a slippery stroke, making her heart slam to a hard stop as a moan tore free. “Write the next line for me, what should I say before I unravel you with my tongue and make you scream my name?”

His Naughty Lessons

<p>"I still can't believe he'd remember a thing about me." When they were done with lunch, which was a surprisingly friendly affair filled with lively discussions and conversations, Harper couldn't stop marveling as the two of them took the long way around the lobby to get back to the conference rooms. "Did you make that up? Because from all I can recall, your father said at most two sentences to me when we met. He shouldn't even remember my name!"</p>

<p>"Trust me, he hears your name from me plenty. You and Tyler were one of the few topics I could bear to talk to him about." Eli didn't typically like to discuss his father, but at this particular moment, he smiled thinking back on those conversations about their special neighbors all those years ago. "Whenever things got bad between us — which was probably about every time he came over on the weekends to visit me — I would tell him to just send me to the McKenzies and let your parents adopt me."</p>

Boon and Bane