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This HaBO is from K and be warned, do not read while eating or drinking:
I was having a discussion with my mother a couple of days ago about the new The Meg movie. While I’m pretty sure now the book I remember reading is not by Steve Alton, I still managed to ride in a car discussing graphic sex scenes with the lady that birthed me trying to recall what my brain thinks is a book with a similar title. Albeit, with far more interesting content.
What I do remember:
The cover had a large modern sailing boat with maybe a setting sun in a gorgeous vacationer’s dream cove. I must have read it in the early to mid 2000s.
The leading lady was probably blonde, maybe a red head.
The leading man was white but taaaaaaaaaaaan and maybe ex military.
The two of them are forced on this boat together looking for something in a specific area in some tropical island location. It might be a treasure hunt, but I might be confusing that with the lackluster film Fool’s Gold.
One of the sex scenes I distinctly remember because I got icked out, since there was no mention of WASHING this particular item, included inserting either a string of pearls, Jade, or coral beads into her fun cave and slowly pulling them out.
My teenage brain, and heck my adult brain, just can’t get on that bacteria bandwagon. It also can’t remember the title or author and it’s driving me nuts.
Let me also join you in not getting on that bacteria bandwagon.
Though it’s a historical and not a contemporary, the boat, the ex-military, and the my-god-tell-me-you’ll-wash-those pearls all show up in Wicked by Susan Johnson: https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-St-John-Duras-Susan-Johnson-ebook/dp/B0036S4E6O
If a book so much as mentions pearl or jade jewelry in passing I automatically get tense, just waiting for the not sexy sexytimes to commence. I’ve run across that scene so often I just skip it if it happens and try to block all recollection.
There was an Elizabeth Lowell series with I think pearls and jade and amber, and there were boats and smuggling and coves. I don’t specifically recall there being any, uh, smuggling of pearls inside of …coves, so to speak, but like I said, I try hard not to recall that.
I actually know this one. It is In too deep by Cherry Adair. It’s her T-Flac Wright brother series https://amzn.to/2D9Am8S
Very distinctive bead scene!
OMG “fun cave”!
😉
“In too deep by Cherry Adair”
Given the bead issue, I have to wonder if the title is an intentional pun.
You know, there’s a Regency novel where the hero’s eating cold chicken with his fingers and THEN commences foreplay and there’s no handwashing. And just the thought makes me shudder. Sticky chicken fingers down THERE! No!
I still managed to ride in a car discussing graphic sex scenes with the lady that birthed me
Best mother-daughter relationship EVER.
@ Olivia Waite – I immediately thought of Wicked by Susan Johnson, too!
This is the 2nd or 3rd HaBO about sexy pearls. (Gah). Good work guys!
Here are the other HaBOs with pearls as sex beads –
Solved Cherry Adair – https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2012/08/s-habo-day-string-of-pearls-no-not-like-that/
Unsolved historical – https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2015/07/habo-scandalous-uses-for-pearls-stairwells/
fyi, the Elizabeth Lowell series was Amber Beach, Pearl Cove, Jade Island (and the final one was Ruby Bayou). No beads were inserted into/pulled from anyone’s “fun cave” (ick). Although I remember one of the men referring to his “dumb handle” which, in context, made perfect sense. (why yes, I do have them all)
Ew! What is with the unsanitized foreign objects thing? EW
In Too Deep by Cherry Adair reads like it’s the one! Thank you!
My mother is the reason I read romance. She left Shanna by Woodiwiss in the house unattended when I was a teen. She should’ve known I would get into it, we share an need to power through books.
@K – I am glad that Cherry Adair’s In Too Deep was the answer. Now, I must reread it.
I remember a historical in which the heroine finds the hero in the stables currying his horse. After exchanging banter as steamy as a manure pile in winter, he puts down the currycomb and gets sexy with her ladybits….yech yech yech.
@Tam I read a book recently where the hero is sanding wood furniture then the heroine comes in, they have sex and he puts his hands full of wood things inside her! No way!
I nearly died laughing coming home on the bus over a scene where the heroine gets a little over-enthusiastic with the vibrator app on her phone (apparently these things exist!) and gets it stuck in her “fun cave.” So it’s buzzing, and her boyfriend keeps texting her, and of course a woman from her circle of friends she doesn’t particularly like shows up at her door….
Ah, “Random Acts of Trust,” by Julia Kent.
All I can think of is that scene from a Virginia Henley where the hero stuffs ben wah balls up the heroine’s betweeny-downy-theres and then puts her on a swing, where she rockets to and fro ’til she orgasms. Good Work, Erica H!