Chelsea is looking for a set of three stories she read in one book – it sounds to me like an anthology of category short stories, but I could be wrong:
Okay, my friend and I need help! We read a collection of 3 shorter contemporary romance novels when we were in middle school (2002-2005) but it might be older than that. Her mom had gotten it and the only story we really want to find is the second(?) one. It was about a woman who had never had an orgasm. She works in an office connected to a mechanic’s garage. The mechanic is her older brother’s best friend. She asks him to show her what an orgasm feels like and…the story continues from there. (I thought it might have been a Harlequin Blaze or Desire but my friend disagrees.)
We would really love to find this set. We remember that the cover was almost all red with the back of an almost completely naked woman on it. My friend says the cover was more the curve of a woman’s hip. The middle story was the worst but the first story wasn’t bad. We cannot remember what the stories were about. Please help!!
If you can help us out at all we would be over the moon!
How strange is it that I think I’ve seen the cover they’re describing, though I have no knowledge of the stories inside? My brain is an entertaining place sometimes. Do you recognize this possible anthology?
The Mechanigasm?
Is it Unzipped? It contains 3 stories in it by Lori Foster, Janelle Denison & Crystal Green. The middle one, “His Every Fantasy”, sounds like it:
“Bride-to-be Leah Burton desperately wants to learn how to really satisfy a man, but her lackluster fiancé isn’t offering his services. Jace Rutledge, her confirmed bachelor friend, however, is up for the job. Now Leah is learning some pleasurable lessons on how to live with no guilt or regrets….”
Jace does work in a garage/own a garage, and things get a little steamy between the two there. Plus, I think this book was a part of a larger set of three (Undressed & Undone being the other two) and each cover is a third of one picture of a woman reclining and a man kissing her feet… Undressed is the one that shows the woman’s hip, though. Just a thought!
I second the Lori Foster suggestion. As soon as I read the HABO description that anthology popped into my head.