Checking Out Audrey

by Lyla Sinclair

For six years, student-worker-turned-librarian Audrey Simms has peered through the bookshelves, watching the wild encounters that take place in the third-floor reference section of the Edward J. Kumm University library. She’s not proud of her little hobby, but it’s the closest she can come to having an erotic experience herself, since her extreme shyness prevents her from making eye contact with others, much less anything else

…until the day she’s found out and blackmailed.

Audrey thinks she’s agreed to go to an apartment and watch clandestinely from the closet, but once there, is shocked to learn she’s actually meant to be the participant this time, instead of the voyeur. Can she let go of her restraint long enough to enjoy a real night of pleasure with an actual man? And could this wild encounter somehow lead her to a relationship of her own?

Genres: Contemporary

47 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 4, 2009

About the author

New York Times and USA Today Best-selling Author

Reviews

[Sarahlynn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've read Lyla Sinclair before and enjoyed the experience, though there's always some necessary suspension of disbelief. This short story - and it is definitely a short story rather than a novella - stretched that necessity rather too far. In just a few short pages, unhampered by much dialogue or character development, we have one improbable almost sexual encounter and one pure fantasy sexual encounter, both with near strangers, the second immediately culminating in a meet-the-parents/proposal moment. I actually forgot that I'd read this story and opened it to read it again because the characters didn't stand out for me at all, so I decided I'd better review it here so I'm unlikely to try to read it again.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audrey is a librarian, and a very shy one at that. However, she longs for a man (and passion) in her life. The passion that she sees other people experience. In enters Max. Will he be able to coax Audrey out of her shell? A good solid read, but not my favorite from Ms. Sinclair.

[Debra Glass · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just love Ms. Sinclair's stories!! Erotic romance for smart women who love to read!

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 2 out of 5]

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