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Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Hide and seek anyone? Let’s find THE ONE.

Off the Clock By Roni Loren

Contemporary Erotic Romance

Released January 5, 2016

Berkley

Series: A Pleasure Principal, Book 1

Reviewed by Jean

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LOVING ON THE EDGE NOVELS, THE FIRST IN A SENSUAL NEW SERIES

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…

Exclusive to this edition only—a bonus short story

Hide and seek anyone? Let’s find THE ONE.

Off the Clock is a departure from Ms. Loren’s predominantly erotic BDSM but not that far. She has a skill at keying into the kinkier aspects of life and putting them on stage for a reader’s imagination to get lost in. Those of you that fear you will miss her BDSM series… have no fear, there is enough here to keep you joyously turning the page at a rapid clip. Ms. Loren is an expert at building tension and excels on delivering when the time is right.

Off the Clock and the Pleasure Principle series take place at an upscale elite mental health facility called The Grove. While I at first assumed the book took place in a sex clinic… as in a place with beds where everyone was having sex or something as a form of research or therapy… Well, let’s just say I was wrong, definitely wrong. The Grove facility provides full mental health services. Some of those services may just be cutting edge and experimental. Hence, the elite part of their reputation. Not many can afford the care that no insurance company will cover… only the wealthy and elite. The wealthy also demand the absolute best for their money. The Grove provides the best… Dr. Donovan West. But, The Grove wasn’t meant to be a one-man show. Enter one, Dr. Marin Rush, sex researcher extraordinaire. Just one problem… this born again virgin has a major problem with blushing. She also has a history with one hot as sin Dr. West. When the one and only man she’s ever been with suggests that they desensitize her by indulging her every fantasy… let’s just say wow! Goodbye, every vestige of virginity.

Nine years ago Marin was eighteen and a lower classman at university when she happened upon one of her professors assistants in what sounded like a compromising position. Data entry work at the sleep lab over spring break became her secret indulgence as she helped Donovan work on his thesis project… a project that saw him named the “orgasm whisperer”… a project that culminated in the loss of her virginity and the end of life as she knew it. Today she is a successful sex researcher with her own doctorate. She’s raised her younger brother. Her grants have evaporated and she needs a new job. She never expected to be offered a position working with Donovan. She never expected to feel so much temptation once again.

Once upon a time, Dr. Donovan West had an incomparable week with a sweet, sexy, young thing, a fellow graduate student She brought him out of the misery his life had become. He took her virginity and she totally disappeared from his life. He graduated and became a media magnet. His life spiraled totally out of control. Now life is about being so busy he doesn’t have to dwell on what it isn’t or who isn’t in it. Life is about work and the promotion he’s chasing and mentoring one sexy doctor can give him everything he wants and everything he doesn’t know he needs.

Off the Clock is a very sexy read. It’ll have you wanting to role-play and indulge in all kinds of sensual games. An absolutely wonderful start to a new series.

Bonus Novella:
One Night Only

Bianca seems to have it all. She successful. She owns her own business as a fashion designer. She’s wealthy. But money won’t buy her love and it certainly won’t get a man to look past the scars she’s carried since a car accident when she was twelve. All she wants is to feel sexy and loved. When she discovers the man she’s been quasi-dating online for the past six months is married and has kids it sends her into a tailspin. Then she meets Eli Harding, sex god of the movie screen in her therapist’s waiting room.

Eli is at rock bottom with his addiction. He might not be addicted to drugs or alcohol but his addiction to sex is just as devastating and destructive. He’s decided to check himself into the rehab. But when he’s confronted with the beautiful woman in the therapist’s office he can’t help but appreciate her beauty. When she calls him on his staring he finds himself being totally honest and open with her, something he hasn’t ever done with a woman before. When she offers one night of sex on the eve of his going into rehab he takes her up on it.

The loving is intense, healing and beautiful but it was only for one night. That’s all Eli does. Or is it? Because Bianca isn’t a woman you just walk away from and forget. She’s a woman that stays on your mind and settles deep.

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O Factor: Scorcher

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Excerpt:

Marin moaned when he parted her lips to deepen the kiss, and a swift rush of arousal flooded her, making the neglected parts of her throb and ache. His tongue stroked hers, teasing with a rhythm she could only imagine in other places. Her nipples became hard points, straining for touch, and her sex pulsed between her thighs. She wanted to rub herself on him like a cat, find relief. He seemed ready to oblige. Donovan backed her into the wall, his body aligning with hers and his hand sliding down to knead her hip like he was barely restraining himself from tearing off her clothes. Heat against heat, hardness growing against her belly. She was dying. She needed this. God, did she need this.

But a swift knock sounded behind him, shattering the protected moment and blasting through her lust-drunk brain. Marin gasped, and Donovan jumped back and dropped his hands to his sides like she had burned him.

The door swung open, and Ysa poked her head in. “Hey, guys I—” Her words faded as her gaze bounced between them. “Uh, sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt.”

Poker face. Poker face. Poker face. Marin pushed off the wall and fought hard to look like everything was fine even though her cheeks were burning hot, her lips slick, and her body pulsing in time with her frantic heartbeat. She had a feeling she was failing miserably at pulling it off. They may as well have a neon sign above their heads that read In Flagrante Delicto.

Donovan, on the other hand, owner of the world’s most impenetrable therapist mask, looked cool and unaffected as he tucked his hands in his pockets, presumably to hide his burgeoning hard-on, and looked at Ysa. “Not interrupting. What’s up?”

Ysa glanced between the two of them again but kept her thoughts to herself. “Just wanted to let you know your nine-thirty is here.”

Marin gave her a quick, tight smile. “Thanks. We’re on our way.”

Ysa gave them one last questioning look and then shook her head and disappeared back out into the hallway. When the door shut, Marin put her hands over her face and groaned. “Son of a bitch. Now there’s more grist for Dr. McCray’s rumor mill. I cannot believe I just did that. Here. With you.”

Donovan stepped into her space again and took her wrists in his hands, gently tugging them away from her face. “Take a breath. It’s okay. Ysa didn’t see anything. And even if she figured it out, she would never say anything to anyone.”

But Marin hardly heard any of it with her head spinning and anxiety rushing through her. “God, how could I be so stupid? I don’t know what I was thinking. I just—”

“It’s not your fault, Marin,” he said, his voice gentle. “I crossed the line first.” His mouth hitched up. “Plus, I should know not to stand that close to a woman who spent all night watching porn.”

A sharp laugh burst out of her, her nerves bubbling up and out. “Right. I’m bound to grab anyone within reach to use for my lecherous purposes.”

Donovan looked down at her for a long second, some of that heat from earlier returning, burning her slowly. His hands flexed around her wrists. “I wouldn’t mind being used by you, Marin.”

Her stomach dipped.

“I didn’t make the offer last night because it would’ve been a selfish move. And a risk. But I want you in my bed. Know that. It’s not altruistic. Or professional. And it’s out of line.” His voice was like water gliding along her skin—smooth, clear, quietly powerful. He lifted her hand and flattened it against his chest over the inner pocket of his jacket. “But if you decide you might want that anyway, know there isn’t a thing on this list that I wouldn’t love to check off for you. Completely and thoroughly. I could make you shameless, Rush.”

She could barely hear him over the roaring sound in her ears. How the hell was she supposed to form words after that?

He released her hands and stepped back but kept her pinned beneath that white-hot gaze. “So if you ever need me . . . off the clock, you just have to ask. And if you want me to go to hell and steer clear, that’s all you’ve got to say, too. It’s your call.”

Everything inside her was buzzing. Her mind had gotten hung up on the words completely and thoroughly. He wasn’t going to pressure her, but the look in his eye said he could rock her celibate world right off its fucking axis. The temptation was like a bright, glittering thing blurring her vision.

But taking that offer would come with a price. Keeping things secret. The risk of being caught. And there would be a time limit. He didn’t do relationships. This would just be sex.

Really hot, really intense sex.

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Off the Clock, Book 1

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Roni wrote her first romance novel at age fifteen when she discovered writing about boys was way easier than actually talking to them. Since then, her flirting skills haven’t improved, but she likes to think her storytelling ability has. Though she’ll forever be a New Orleans girl at heart, she now lives in Dallas with her husband and son.

If she’s not working on her latest sexy story, you can find her reading, watching reality television, or indulging in her unhealthy addiction to rockstars, er, rock concerts. Yeah, that’s it. She is the National Bestselling Author of The Loving on the Edge series from Berkley Heat.

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