Smutty Book Club

The book for this month is Choosing Her Alpha by Isoellen. The book is a little hard to find, here is a link: https://readsonlinefree.com/isoellen/page,2,579164-choosing_her_alpha

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Fun housekeeping note: Our annual trip to the Renaissance Festival will be on Saturday, September 26th. See Meetup for details. Remember we leave early - we want to be on the first bus.... breakfast beers are waiting.

Back to Choosing Her Alpha - here's what the publisher says:
. Sasha's situation has reached critical mass.
. Her mother is dying, and her step-father Merrick is a jackal waiting to stake his claim the second she is legal. In her world, Sasha is promised a choice. But if Merrick gets his way she will be married before anyone can protest against it.
. Desperate to secure the futures of herself and her workers, Sasha makes a dangerous gamble... She seeks out Constantine Kane, the most feared and respected man in the 12 Sectors.
. Sasha has made her choice... Will it be one she lives to regret?
Warning: This dystopian romance explores 18+ themes including scenes of violence, sexual content and power exchange.

Please join us at Cornerstone Tavern, 961 2nd Ave, New York, NY (51st and 2nd) for great conversation, laughs, and friendship. Look for our signs, and listen for the laughter. We are often in the back of Cornerstone behind the curtain, which is actually a different restaurant called the Stags Head. We start at 7pm, but feel free to come early before happy hour ends at 7. People usually start to drift in by 6:30pm.

This is a bonus Virtual Smutty Book Club Event for those who love Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. Each month we will read the next book.

We are on Book 26: Serpentine. We will also quickly talk about the 25.5 Novella Wounded which we probably should have read last month since it involves Manny's injured son Tomas. We need to start using our own judgement on the order of these novellas, since AI is biffing it on the numbering.

Quick housekeeping note: Someone has been using the name of Smutty Book Club and its organizers to invite people to for-profit events. If you receive any solicitation for an event or receive communication outside of Meetup, asking for money - it is a scam. Please let us know if you see anything suspicious.

Ok back to Serpentine. Here's what the publisher says:
. A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow U.S. Marshal and best friend Edward. For Anita, the vacation is a welcome break, as it's the first trip she gets to take with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel. But it's not all fun and games and bachelor parties...
. In this tropical paradise Micah discovers a horrific new form of lycanthropy, one that has afflicted a single family for generations. Believed to be the result of an ancient Greek curse, it turns human bodies into a mass of snakes.
. When long-simmering resentment leads to a big blowout within the wedding party, the last thing Anita needs is more drama. But it finds her anyway when women start disappearing from the hotel, and worse--her own friends and lovers are considered the prime suspects. There's a strange power afoot that Anita has never confronted before, a force that's rendering those around her helpless in its thrall. Unable to face it on her own, Anita is willing to accept help from even the deadliest places. Help that she will most certainly regret--if she survives at all, that is...

We meet every second Thursday of every month to talk about the Anita Blake series. We meet online (Zoom), You must be logged into Zoom to access the link.

See you soon at Virtual Smutty Book Club's special Anita Blake side book club... We are in the home stretch. Only five more books! We will finish by Valentine's Day!
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