All Hands on Pleasure

by Tristan Penhuel

It was supposed to be a week of passion at sea, a chance to explore the fantasies they’d only whispered about.

But one mistaken identity changes everything. Now Ryan and Nastya are the center of attention for couples who want them, spies who need them, and strangers who know too much.

As the nights grow hotter and the secrets darker, they are pulled into a game where every touch carries risk and every choice blurs the line between seduction and survival. Trapped between desire and danger, they must decide who to trust, what to reveal, and how far they are willing to go. On this ship, pleasure is not just temptation; it is bait in a deadly trap.

353 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 19, 2025

Reviews

[PugLover · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hazard and his team are on a cruise looking for a couple suspected of weapons smuggling. Kim and Greg play long time lovers. Deborah and Sam play a married couple. Nastya and her husband Ryan are potential suspects. Kim and Greg get intimate with Nastya and Ryan before they figure out they have the wrong couple. Luckily, Nastya stumbles across two Russian women who make up part of the trio who become the next suspects. Because of Nastya's ability to understand Russian and the close relationship already forming with Kim and Greg, Hazard agrees to allow Nastya and Ryan to help out with the mission. Along the way the three couples end up playing together in multiple scenarios. Thanks to Nastya and Ryan the mission is completed. The entire group comes together on the final night when Kim plans a dinner and mission complete playtime event. Back home Nastya and Ryan are trying to get back into their real lives when Hazard shows up with a new mission.

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[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ryan and Nastya Owens from Kansas City are a couple, her 41 and him in the lower 50’s, celebrating the empty nest by taking a 7-day Caribbean cruise…with a twist. For years they have fantasized and roleplayed about Ryan watching Nastya with another man, and on this vacation, they have decided to make it a reality. Also on the cruise are five CIA agents on a mission to capture an international arms dealer and his blonde Russian wife. The agents are all proven experts in honeytraps and intend to seduce the baddies into revealing critical information. As luck would have it, Nastya, Eastern European by birth, is blonde and speaks with her original Ukrainian accent. Inevitably the vacationers are mistaken for the culprits.
As our couple get drawn further into the affair we learn more and more about this simple mid-western twosome. They have skills and not just in the bedroom. Soon they are part of the team and up to their necks in sex and intrigue.
There are plenty of twists and turns in this espionage caper and even more amorous scenes. The author has the ability to describe a sexy scene without descending to smut. Hear that? Smut free, but with lots and lots of scorching hot sex. Sometimes he describes a sexy encounter with just a few short sentences, or, contrary wise, with an arousing description that may last one or more chapters. It's all about choosing the right words. In either case, he writes with clarity, and flair and thankfully with few grammatical errors or misspellings.
My only criticism, a minor one, is a hole in the story; what were the two Russian women, staying in the ultra-luxurious quarters, waited upon by a butler and full staff, doing in the ship’s tiny self-service laundromat washing their undies? Don’t worry, the tango scene more than makes up for it.
This is the first book I have read by this author, and within 5-minutes I knew it would not be the last.

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a curious book in that it starts as an undercover terrorist mission taking place on a Caribbean cruise only to shift to an empty nest couple from the American mid-west going on the same adults only cruise.

The next 40% of the book deals largely with this couple as they explore some sexual liberation through swinging with another couple who, unknown to them, are part of the undercover mission.

From this point the story heats up in all ways as the adventure builds. It ends hp being a fun filled adventure with some peril, plenty o sex with engaging characters.

I struggled a bit with the POV shifting between the characters, to the extent that it also moves from 1st to 3rd person and back again in just a few paragraphs. Aldo in the Kindle edition that I downloaded the font size shits during the later part of the book.

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[Priscilla · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a bit more of a guilty pleasure read. The plot was on the thin side but that was ok as it was all about the couple Nastya and Ryan getting adventurous on their cruise with Kim and Greg. I was not reading this for the plot or for character development. It was a fun and quick read.

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