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This HaBO request is from Katie, who is looking for a long-lost Kindle read:
I need some help finding a book that I read on my kindle years and years ago and that has since disappeared off it.
It was a MFM romance—the heroine is at a party and is feeling bored and awkward. She’s nerdy, I think? She sees two absolutely smoking hot guys and thinks neither of them would ever be interested in her, but they come up to her and if I recall, dance floor grinding happens. One thing leads to another and they all end up in bed together. It turns out that they’re two guys she knew back in school, they were the stereotypical nerdy guys who got buff in adulthood and made a lot of money doing something with computers. They ask her to be in a relationship with them. There’s a lot of sex. I remember thinking their relationship was really sweet!
There’s no real drama, and this might only be novella length. I remember really enjoying this one and would love to read it again, but it’s not in my kindle content and I haven’t been able to find it by yahoogling.
“Yahoogling” is my new favorite word. Thank you, Katie!
Make Mine Midnight
by Annmarie McKenna
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Pretty certain this is ‘Double the D ‘by Evie Mitchell.
Maybe One Starry Night by Olivia Cunning. It’s a novella in her Sinners (band) series.
Setting: high school reunion.
Characters: 1 popular girl, 1 bad boy, 1 nerd turned billionaire
Rating: Very hot.
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Is it possibly THEIR NERD by Allyson Lindt? Nerdy-but-brilliant heroine has a one-nighter with two smoking hot guys only to discover—oh no’s!—they’re her new bosses at a tech start-up. If it’s not THEIR NERD, I recommend scrolling through Lindt’s books (most of them are available through KU) and see if you can find the one you’re looking for: Lindt’s stock-in-trade is MMF-romance set in the tech/business worlds.
I agree that, except for the novella length, Allyson Lindt is a really likely candidate, but I’d also note that a few of Mari Carr’s, Lexxie Couper’s, or Jess Dee’s titles might fit this description.
Scribbling notes.
Don’t stop now!
I read something similar to this back when e-books were first a thing. I downloaded pretty much everything that was free on the B&N website. This was pre-nook, when all they offered was a PC app. There was some pretty bad stuff in there, but hey, it was free (some things never change). Have no idea who wrote it, and don’t have it anymore. But I do remember that she was a virgin and they went Double-P for her first time. Yeah, right.
The suggestions in the comments are a delight on an otherwise annoying Tuesday morning. Keep ‘em coming!
Can this be my life? LOL
It doesn’t completely fit the ask but the novella “Theirs For the Night” by Katee Robert strikes a cord, especially the grinding on the dancefloor.
Anyway We Want by Grey Cole*? I have it on my kindle from back in the day, but it looks like it is no longer available on Amazon.
**There was lots of speculation at the time round Grey Cole. They even note in their acknowledgments that this was a very DL pseudonym for a book too hot to pub under their name. I don’t think they ever followed this book up either.
How about Tymber Dalton’s Safe Harbor/Sun Coast Society books? It’s been many years since I last read them, but the first book, Safe Harbor, rings a bell.
“Make mine Midnight” by Annmarie McKenna has a similar plot.
Make Mine Midnight by AnnMarie McKenna?
Maybe one of the Out of Uniform books by Elle Kennedy?
sounds like ‘theirs for the night’?
Reminds me of Tara Lain’s Genetic Attraction (and its prequel The Scientist and the Supermodel), though those are MMF…
“stereotypical nerdy guys who got buff in adulthood and made a lot of money doing something with computers”
Uhh… Elon Musk? Peter Thiel? I guess we’ve found my anti-kink.
It’s definitely Make Mine Midnight—thank you, everyone!! I’m so glad to have that mystery solved at last. Unfortunately, it’s definitely not on my kindle anymore, even though Amazon shows I’ve purchased it. The ebook is no longer available for sale either, so the new mystery is what’s going on there?! Argh. I just want to read it again!
@Katie I looked to see was it available anywhere and I could barely even find more than a handful of google results for its existence, but I have managed to get a pdf of it. I wouldn’t normally do that but it’s literally not on sale anyway. So, if you like, I can email it to you.
Actually, instead of having to share your email, I put it here! https://filebin.net/zqxht19xutz83c1k
@Lucy, you are a LIFESAVER!! Thank you so much! This is an awesome community, and I appreciate you all. Can’t wait to reread this!
@Katie Oh brill, so glad you got my reply and that the file downloaded for you. (Sorry to SBTB if I’m not allowed to leave a link/file for someone.)
@Lucy, this happened with a book I was looking for a few years ago. I contacted the author on her FB page and asked about it. She said the book wasn’t doing well so she had removed it from Amazon but since I reached out she made it available for 12 hours and let me know when so I could purchase it. I felt that was very sweet of her. Maybe there are other authors who would be interested/able to do the same thing.