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HaBO: He Writes Math Problems on Her Body (Rwor)

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This Help A Bitch Out request comes from Amy, who has a theory that there are four total romances in the world. She…might be on to something there.

I love my Kindle/library ebooks/Scribd, however the number of books I have read in the past four years is getting a tiny bit out of control. I semi-seriously joke that there are only four books, one for each genre that I read, as most of the plots kind of run together after awhile. I am in need of some help to find a book that I know I read within the past three years.

I am pretty sure it was a contemporary, with a math professor/rocket scientist/engineer hero. I don’t remember much about the rest of the book except that when the hero and heroine have sex for the first time (maybe the first time), he has some sort of break through on a complicated math problem and writes math equations on the heroine’s naked body with a Sharpie.

I think it may have been part of a series, because I think there was a joke in another book referencing the couple always needing writing utensils within reach during sexy times.

I know I read this on my Kindle, so I have no details regarding the book cover or even who the author could be. Short of rereading everything in my Kindle library, I am out of ideas of how to find this book. Thanks Bitchery!

I totally want to read this scene. I’m half aghast and half

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  1. Beth Not Elizabeth says:

    Half aghast, half….. what? Delighted? Intrigued? Curious? I need to know your emotional state!!

  2. Sandge says:

    Possibly High Energy by Dara Joy? It’s been a long time since I’ve read it, but I seem to remember that scene.

  3. Christie says:

    Getting Out of Hand by Erin Nicholas (the first of the Sapphire Falls books). I loved that part.

  4. KatieF says:

    If it is Getting Out of Hand, it’s available for free at Amazon and B&N. Even if that isn’t the right title, I’m reading it–the blurb sounds great.

    Genius scientist Mason Riley can cure world hunger, impress the media and piss off the Vice President of the United States all before breakfast. But he’s not sure he can get through his high school class reunion.

    Then he meets the new girl in town.

    Adrianne Scott loves Sapphire Falls. The sleepy little town has been the perfect place to escape her fast-paced, high stress lifestyle. Her only plans now include opening her candy shop and living a quiet, drama-free life.

    Until Mason Riley bids four hundred dollars just to dance with her.

    Mason sure doesn’t look–or kiss–like a genius scientist geek. In fact, he makes Adrianne’s heart pound like nothing she’s ever experienced. Passion like this with a guy who travels the world and parties at the White House should probably be a red flag for a girl who wants a simple boring life.

    Good thing no one falls in love in a weekend.

    WARNING: read only if you don’t mind some naughty words, sexy times described in great detail, humor, small town quirkiness, meddling best friends, mud in the kitchen, references to bisexuality, oh and talk about candy… and that’s not a euphemism for anything… actual candy.

  5. Chris Alexander says:

    That sounds fantastic, says the wife of a mathematician. 😉

  6. Sarah says:

    There’s a similar scene in Olivia Cunning’s Backstage Pass (erotica), though with a musician hero.

  7. cleo says:

    I’m tempted by Getting out of Hand. Anyone who’s read it – what does “references to bisexuality” in the blurb mean? I’m hoping it means that one of the MCs is bi, but I can’t tell.

    And wasn’t there a SEP with a scientist heroine who wrote down her insights on anything that was handy (don’t remember her writing on the hero though)? It was one of the Chicago Stars books.

  8. RebeccaA says:

    Cleo,

    That SEP was Nobody’s Baby but mine. She would write on the baby’s diaper if there were no sticky notes.

  9. Victoria Goldy-Rhodes says:

    I do believe that the answer to Amy’s request is indeed Getting Of Hand by Erin Nicholas. Sarah is also correct that there is a similar scene in Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning, but Brian writes song lyrics on Myrna, not mathematical equations, like Mason did.

    Cleo, to answer your question, Lauren Davis is the bisexual character in this series. She’s a secondary character in Getting Out of Hand and Getting Worked Up (book 2), but she has her own story in book 3: Getting Dirty. Hope that helped you!

  10. Aelily says:

    Grabbed it! Ah, Amazon 1-click, my best friend and worst enemy.

  11. denise says:

    one-clicked–thanks

  12. Storyphile says:

    OMG I know I read this recently too and I don’t remember what book it was either!! I don’t remember reading anything by Erin Nicholas, but I just joined Kindle Unlimited and have been reading like crazy for the last 6 weeks. Whatever book I read that had this was on Kindle Unlimited (in Canada).

  13. laj says:

    One-Click….me too!

  14. Katie Lynn says:

    That scene in Backstage Pass is what started this whole thing up! I was telling Amy about it and she mentioned that she had read something similar, but with equations. Now I need to know what it was.

  15. Amy says:

    I am the bitch who needed help and y’all killed it! It was definitely Getting Out of Hand by Erin Nicholas. I was reading Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning and got to the part where Brian writes music on Myrna and thought “Self, you have read something like this before. But where?”

    Y’all are amazing.

  16. Coco says:

    Amy’s on to something with this “there are only four books” thing.

    I never had this problem until I started reading on my Kindle or my phone or otherwise digitally. And I don’t think that it’s so much that what we’re reading is all so similar but that the memory cues that we would have with a physical, paper book aren’t there in the digital. The cover art, and the texture of the pages, the typeface, the smell – all of that, and likely more things that are individual to the reader, connect our memories to specifics.

    I am absolutely floored when the readers here can pick a title out of their heads with scant, and minor details from a specific story. I wasn’t great at that when I was reading paper books but now, I haven’t a clue. I could have read this book last week and I still wouldn’t know.

    For whatever reason, it doesn’t make me enjoy it less.

  17. jimthered says:

    For what it’s worth, in XXXENOPHILE (a wonderful adult comic book written and drawn by Phil Foglio; review up at http://thearmchaircritic.blogspot.com/2010/02/xxxenophile.html ) there’s a story called “Hold That Thought” where, after a lab accident, a female scientist gets more brilliant insights the more aroused she gets. For better or worse, there’s no body writing in the story.

  18. Christine Maria Rose says:

    It’s definitely Getting Out of Hand by Erin Nicholas as other commenters have stated. Mason has ruined me for other geeky heroes! That’s the first of her Sapphire Falls series. Book 4, Getting It All just came out today, and is 99c today for sure and possibly tomorrow too before it goes up in price. The whole series is great.

  19. Christine Maria Rose says:

    And I have to say that this is the first I’ve actually known the answer to a HABO question!

  20. DonnaMarie says:

    FYI, just picked up Getting Out of Hand for ZERO DOLLARS in the Kindle store. In case anyone’s catnip alarm went off the way mine did.

  21. Maite says:

    Thanks to Amy for posting the HaBO, thanks KatieF for mentioning it was free.
    (Just when I’d resolved to stop buying free e-books by the dozen… whatever, real geek* MC are catnip).

    *real geek: The ones who are geeks, not those “I’m-so-geek” who just have thick glasses and claim to watch Star Trek.

  22. Rebecca says:

    Did this make anyone else think of Edward Frenkel’s appearance on The Colbert Report, when he played a clip of his film “The Rites of Love and Math”? That film sounds like an inspiration for this book.

  23. Niki says:

    I…I bought this. Tonight. And just devoured it over the past 4-5 hours (sorry for the late bedtime, kiddo). The equation-writing is definitely hot. I totally want to read Lauren’s story too (sexy, brilliant bisexual scientist, yay).

  24. Bee says:

    I just it for free on Amazon too.

  25. Katrina says:

    *makes grabby hands gestures, goes to buy all the books*

  26. Heidi says:

    so funny! just read it last night so immediately knew the answer 🙂

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