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The Holiday Hypothesis
The Seduce my brother's best friend, get him out of my system, and move on.
The Falling harder.
Ella has been in love with Marco Benedetti for exactly eight years, ten months, and three days. She knows this because she's a scientist and tracks data. She also knows that pining after her brother's best friend is illogical, inefficient, and mortifying as hell.
So when she finds herself at a family gathering at Marco's Tuscan vineyard, she formulates a new If she sleeps with him, the mystery will vanish, the crush will fade, and she'll finally be able to get on with her life.
Marco doesn't recognise the confident woman in the green dress as the awkward teenager he used to tease. He just sees smart, direct, and dangerously attractive Gabby. And when she propositions him? He's more than willing to assist with her research.
But one night in the wine cellar changes everything.
Now Ella has to return to London with inconclusive results. The experiment was supposed to end the crush. Instead, she might have just discovered her most important variable some chemical reactions can't be controlled, predicted, or explained by science alone.
The Falling harder.
Ella has been in love with Marco Benedetti for exactly eight years, ten months, and three days. She knows this because she's a scientist and tracks data. She also knows that pining after her brother's best friend is illogical, inefficient, and mortifying as hell.
So when she finds herself at a family gathering at Marco's Tuscan vineyard, she formulates a new If she sleeps with him, the mystery will vanish, the crush will fade, and she'll finally be able to get on with her life.
Marco doesn't recognise the confident woman in the green dress as the awkward teenager he used to tease. He just sees smart, direct, and dangerously attractive Gabby. And when she propositions him? He's more than willing to assist with her research.
But one night in the wine cellar changes everything.
Now Ella has to return to London with inconclusive results. The experiment was supposed to end the crush. Instead, she might have just discovered her most important variable some chemical reactions can't be controlled, predicted, or explained by science alone.
89 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 5, 2026
About the author
Linn Rhinehart
5 books2 followersLinn Rhinehart writes sweet’n’spicy spoonie smut - erotic fantasies and romantic erotica with disabled, chronically ill, and non-normative main characters. A UK-based Swedish author, editor and writing coach, Linn has a background in media production, public relations and education.
Born with a degenerative disease that rendered her unable to work, Linn has been a spoonie for longer than the term has existed. In Pet’s Penance, she draws on that experience and writes herself into a story that is part autobiography, part autoethnography, and part romantic bdsm-flavoured erotica. She is currently working on a second series and a few standalone shorts, but Pet shows up in most of them as there are some crossovers between all the characters and their storylines.
In her youth, curiosity led Linn to explore the kink scene. The intention was to dip a toe in to test the water, but she soon found herself in charge of a number of forums and websites dedicated to the promotion of a safe and sex-positive playground for sociable sex-larpers. She likes to involve kink and bdsm in her stories as she feels that the community as a whole gets a lot of bad, and grossly unfair, representation both in literature and media. It is important to her to show that sex can be fun, and that a D/s dynamic can be a loving, consensual relationship based on mutual respect and equality.
Linn loves storytelling, tea, music, Life, crafting and chocolate, and she is particularly partial to mental fireworks, physical sensations and anything that involves more than two senses. She writes her books together with her master, Maddox Rhinehart. You can find updates on their current projects, read free samples of their work, and check out their linktree at holihell.com, or talk to them on twitter @MaddoxRhinehart and @RhinehartLinn.
Born with a degenerative disease that rendered her unable to work, Linn has been a spoonie for longer than the term has existed. In Pet’s Penance, she draws on that experience and writes herself into a story that is part autobiography, part autoethnography, and part romantic bdsm-flavoured erotica. She is currently working on a second series and a few standalone shorts, but Pet shows up in most of them as there are some crossovers between all the characters and their storylines.
In her youth, curiosity led Linn to explore the kink scene. The intention was to dip a toe in to test the water, but she soon found herself in charge of a number of forums and websites dedicated to the promotion of a safe and sex-positive playground for sociable sex-larpers. She likes to involve kink and bdsm in her stories as she feels that the community as a whole gets a lot of bad, and grossly unfair, representation both in literature and media. It is important to her to show that sex can be fun, and that a D/s dynamic can be a loving, consensual relationship based on mutual respect and equality.
Linn loves storytelling, tea, music, Life, crafting and chocolate, and she is particularly partial to mental fireworks, physical sensations and anything that involves more than two senses. She writes her books together with her master, Maddox Rhinehart. You can find updates on their current projects, read free samples of their work, and check out their linktree at holihell.com, or talk to them on twitter @MaddoxRhinehart and @RhinehartLinn.
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