Tornado Warning: A Steamy Workplace Menage Romance

by Reba Bale

When the sirens go off, the fun starts…

Best friends Jonathon and Robert have shared everything since they first met in kindergarten…toys, an apartment, and now, a woman.

The duo has loved their coworker Claudia from afar for years now, but they’ve always been afraid to approach her. She’s beautiful, private, and completely professional. She seems to hate both of them, at least until the day they’re trapped alone together in a tornado shelter…

Everyone else was smart enough to head home before the storms came, but when Claudia, Jonathon, and Robert stay at work to finish an important project, they have no choice but to take refuge from the storm in an underground bomb shelter. As tornados rip through their town, passion flares and inhibitions disappear as the two best friends show Claudia how much she means to them.

But when the rains stop, will Claudia agree to something long-term?

"Tornado Warning" is an instalove coworkers to lovers MFM menage romantic comedy. This is a steamy standalone romance with no cheating, no angst, just a sweet polyamorous happily ever after.

Genres: Romance, Why Choose, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Forced Proximity, Polyamory, M F M

Audible Audio

Published January 6, 2024

About the author

Reba Bale loves writing naughty stories where the characters are able to tap into their inner fantasies and experience spanking, bondage, humiliation, or other activities on the non-vanilla side of life.

When Reba is not writing she's reading the same naughty stories she likes to write.

Be sure to follow Reba's Amazon author page and sign up for her newsletter so you are first to hear about all the new releases. Sign up at: https://bit.ly/rebabooks.

Reviews

[Coco.V]

🎁 FREE on Amazon today (8/10/2022)! 🎁

[Carrie Harger · Rating 1 out of 5]

Guys….yes I did read a p*rn book basically. Did I like it? No not really lmao. Was I bullied into putting this on my good reads? Yes. I hate u Madison and Kelsee. Took me 20 minutes to read and I’d unread it if I could. I am not a p*rn book hater at all, I just hate this book.

[Dani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite knowing what to expect as I walked into this one, I was still bummed. There was opportunity for a lot more emotion in this book. They worked together for years and really never had a conversation that wasn't about work and then a few hours later they're canoodling in the basement of the place they work.

[Valerie Connors · Rating 2 out of 5]

This had a lot of potential, but it was pretty cheesy and unbelievable. Definitely wanted more depth.

[Ash · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very unrealistic and dare I say, corny?
All three mains are beautiful, successful and crushing on each other 🙄 Fmc wanted both dudes and the dudes who share everything including women (no sword crossing), wanted only the fmc.
I mean even the spice was vanilla; very white rice with no seasoning. But this book is only like 50 pages so...

[Lindsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spicy.

[MusingsofRu · Rating 1 out of 5]

While I understood what I was getting into, there were many editing issues that made me pause like repetitive phrases & disjointed paragraphs. Short story with open door content.

[Ursula Johnson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short & Forgettable

This was a short menage novella about legal coworkers stuck together in a storm. Just bare bones, bit of background, then basic spice scenes. Audio book was virtual voice, which does not take the place of real narrators, who bring more. Just finished a similar book by a different author who was far better.

[T Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

HEA
Standalone
RH
Raining Love series

*over 18 readers only*

Jonathan and Robert are best friends who do *everything* together. They live and work together, but their goal is to have Claudia. She acted like she didn't like them, but that wasn't exactly the truth. All three of them are 3rd year associates at the same law firm and have just been assigned the same case. Bad weather shuts down their office in the middle of a meeting. When Claudia announces that she's staying at work, both men immediately agree to stay with her. Their building has a bomb shelter, so they had down to it while a tornado heads towards them. Will what happens in the bomb shelter stay there, or can they make this permanent?

There's only what happens in the bomb shelter in terms of steam, and she didn't seem as into it as the men. Was kind of a letdown. The writing style was great, but it felt like it was missing something.

[Anna M_82 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who knew a tornado could bring you to your HEA? Well that’s what happens for Jonathon, Claudia, and Robert. Jonathon and Robert have been best friends practically their whole lives and act more like twins than friends. Claudia so the source of their obsession as well as a coworker. A tornado brings these three together in a setting that allows them to express feelings and explore chemistry. These three certainly are spicy together!!.

I received a copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Morgan Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short story that can be read in an hour. It involves 2 best friends since childhood crushing and wanting the same girl for 3yrs. They always share everything, so wanting to share the same partner was nothing new to them. Little did they know Claudia had been crushing on them for the same amount of time. Luckily, one horrible tornado storm changes everything for them.

3/5 ⭐️

🌪️ MFM Why Choose
🌪️ Forced Proximity
🌪️ Coworkers to Lovers
🌪️ Instalove

[Lisa D · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a little too practical for me. I liked the characters and the story but to lay out their relationship plan before they had really gotten to know each other was very odd. Not really a lot of chemistry between them although I liked the friendship between Jon and Robert.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Ana]

DNF @ 51%

I’m really starting to hate insta love. Jonathon mentioned that he and Robert loved Claudia in the first chapter, but I decided to preserve through the book. However, once I got to the part where they decided to talk about their interests, I couldn’t do it anymore. How do you decide you love someone without knowing the little things about them?? Or at least their interests??

[Bee Snyder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun throuple story.. short and sweet but managed to cover all the bases to feel like a well rounded short story.

I listened to it free on audible plus and that’s the only reason it didn’t get 4 stars. It was narrated by virtual voice and the robot just doesn’t do it for me. I have to say though that the story was good enough to keep me engaged anyways.

[Laura Harnish · Rating 1 out of 5]

Audio book-I should have paid more attention to the fact that this was AI read. I couldn’t tell you what was evening happening because the 5 minutes I did listen I couldn’t overcome the horrible narration. I wish authors had more faith in their work to spend the extra money and have it narrated by humans. This could have been a good story, but I can’t listen to any more of it. Shame too.

[Richard Burlton · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a very short story and follows a fairly common plotline of, in this case 3 people, getting trapped in a building due to bad weather. Due to the enforced proximity previously suppressed emotions and desires come to the surface, etc.

The characters are perfectly pleasant but providing 3 separate points of view in such a short book makes it disjointed.

[Debbie Benson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. Who knew a disaster warning would allow Jonathon, Robert and Claudia to act on their attraction and eventually find love together. I liked how all three responsibly handled their relationship.

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Storm’s A-Brewin’

This short story brings the heat and the sweet! I loved the “legal negotiations” Claudia initiated with Jonathon and Robert at the start of their relationship - such a junior lawyer thing to do! A great quick read for a stormy night.

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sandwich Time

Claudia Claudia Claudia. How could you not want to be in a Sandwich? I also have no idea how any of them lasted that long if I'm being honest. That is a heck of a long time to ignore that type of attraction.

Super steamy, super cute. Loved their HEA

[Wanika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute!

This book was just what I wanted, something quick, spicy, and with an actual plot. Tornando warning managed to give enough of a plot to make sense, some spice, and an epilogue that wrapped up everything nearly.

[Amanda H · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super spicy novella anyone?

Short, sweet, sexy and to the point. Definitely hits all the marks of a novella. I actually didn’t mind the instalove in this one because they didn’t actually use the L word. Really well done. Just a couple minor copy edits throughout.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read!

Reba Bale is a relatively new author for me. I quite enjoyed Tornado Warning! It was a fast paced romance with likeable characters that you wanted to root for. It was filled with drama, romance, a little dry wit, and STEAM!

You can’t go wrong with this one!

[Jelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh.

This wasn’t bad. I didn’t love it, the verbiage was dated and the general vibe seemed very 2000s Penthouse, but it was readable and mildly enjoyable.

Unfortunately, that’s about all I can say about it.

[Renee Perry · Rating 1 out of 5]

This feels like it was written by a high school boy who has watched a lot of porn but has never actually had sex. Before the threesome one of them says “let’s get this party started”. It’s so bad you guys

[Kawthar · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5🌟

-Novella
-Workplace romance
-MFM

This was short and sweet, honestly I think it definitely could’ve been developed into a longer novella but it was still cute.

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

bring in the bad weather!

I wish that I can have a bad weather romance! 😆. It just showed that love can happen even in bad weather!

[Sn8wflake · Rating 3 out of 5]

ménage

A natural disaster on the horizon, a bunker fit for three, and pent up desire ready to explode. Kind of needed more.

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book wasn’t bad but I was hoping for more. There is some spice but I would say overall it was only a 1/5 🌶 on my scale, which was disappointing for what was supposed to be a spicy novella!

[ஐ Katya (Book Queen)ஐ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surprisingly not bad.

[Elaine Swinney · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was not what I expected. I would have like to have seen more to the story that I got. This was a very short read. If you like short read this is one for you. You can read it in about an hour.