A LITTLE BUZZED

Scout Porter has vowed to never let love distract her from work, but she never said anything about lust. As the head engineer for BuzzCorp, a sex-toy manufacturer, there’s not much that can make Scout blush—that is, until Hudson Bailey comes along. He’s BuzzCorp’s handsome new contracted software engineer, which means that Scout has to deal with six weeks of being agonizingly horny. The problem isn’t that he’s tall and bookish, or that he’s never even used a sex toy before, but that Scout’s life turned upside down the last time she fell for a co-worker and got distracted. After a major mechanical failure at Scout’s previous gig caused her to lose her job and end up heartbroken, she’s avoided all relationships—to the point that she’s still a virgin. Hudson doesn’t fall for Scout’s work-only attitude, though, and asks her to “professionally” teach him the ropes about BuzzCorp’s toys so he can better engineer them. While Scout is leery of entering this teaching partnership with Hudson, she realizes she could use it to her advantage. How can she manufacture sex toys without ever having done the deed? Plus, she can shake off her untamable desire for Hudson by actually having him, and by the looks of his, er, body language, it seems he feels the same way. As Scout and Hudson enter their newfound working relationship, Scout can’t help but realize her feelings go beyond the bedroom, and she might just be head over vibrator in love. Murray’s novel is a hot, hot, hot and oh-so-fun workplace romance. In a story perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood, Murray brings the heat while formulating a sincere, vulnerable relationship between two people with insecurities. Scout and Hudson buzz with tension on every page, and Murray’s tongue-in-cheek chapter headings keep the vibes delightfully campy and steamy.