OFF THE CLOCK is the first book in the Pleasure Principle series by Roni
Loren.
Marin Rush and Donovan West first meet in college. He is
looking into the ways 'dirty sex talk' can help women who
have problems with arousal. It's a legitimate thing he is
doing for his course. Marin is fascinated with what he is
doing and when he asks her to give feedback to him about the
tapes she is happy to help. They become firm friends and
are completely at ease with each other. It's no surprise
that they end up having passionate sex. Circumstances later
that very night see Marin leaving college. She and Donovan
don't see each other for years. This is all in the first
half of the book.
The second half of the book is where things really heat up.
Marin is a now a newly qualified sex therapist. Donovan is a
sex therapist too, but he is older than Marin and has been
qualified and working quite a while at The Grove, a very
high-end clinic for people with all kinds of addictions
including sex. It's an utter shock for them both when Marin
gets a job at the same place. She has to be mentored by him
because she has had no experience of working with people,
all her qualifications are on paper. She's green as they
come and even blushes when clients talk about masturbation.
It's Donovan's duty to make sure that she toughens up. How
does he do that? Well, let's just say it involves a lot of
passionate sex, in a lot of different ways. If she can have
sex that way then she shouldn't ever blush about hearing
about it from clients. That's the theory.
What I really enjoyed about OFF THE CLOCK is that it felt so
real. The characters were believable, and the sizzling hot
sex that they had didn't seem written for the shock value.
This couple had hang ups, baggage from their past, but they
are soul mates. It's not only lust that keeps their
passion raging, but a connection that neither of them even
realise they have. This story is a full on romance, the
sex didn't come across as dirty or cringe worthy. They were
like minded in what they wanted from each other, and what
they could offer, and it wasn't just sex, it was intimacy,
the ability to talk to each other, to help each other get
over the problems in their pasts.
I fully intend to carry on reading this series if OFF THE
CLOCK sets the standard. I am not normally a big fan of
erotica, but this book is so much more than that!
Overtime has never felt so good…
Marin Rush loves studying sex. Doing it? That’s another
story. In the research lab, Marin’s lack of practical
knowledge didn’t matter, but now that she’s landed a job at
The Grove, a high-end, experimental sex therapy institute,
she can’t ignore the fact that the person most in need of
sexual healing may be her.
Dr. Donovan West, her new hotshot colleague, couldn’t agree
more. Donovan knows that Marin’s clients are going to eat
her alive unless she gets some hands-on experience. And if
she fails at the job, he can say goodbye to a promotion, so
he assigns her a list of R-rated tasks to prepare her for
the wild clientele of The Grove’s X-wing.
But some of those tasks are built for two, and when he finds
Marin searching for a candidate to help her check off her
list, Donovan decides there’s only one man for the job—him.
As long as they keep their erotic, off-the-clock activities
strictly confidential and without strings, no one will get
fired—or worse, get attached…
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