TOUCH ME NOT (Naughty Fairy Tales) by Jen Katemi-Review & Guest Post

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 3, 2018

Mia doesn’t believe in happily-ever-after. She’s spent her whole life fighting the pain of overly-sensitive skin and has never known the joy of being touched in a way that brings pleasure instead of pain. When a mysterious woman suggests her son might be the key to breaking Mia’s curse, it sounds far too crazy to be real—especially when she finds out he’s a renowned Dom in an exclusive, members-only club. But Mia is desperate enough to try anything…

Alexei knows there’s no such thing as happily-ever-after. He’s a child of the streets, rescued by a brothel queen, and the last thing he needs is another suburban princess getting in his way. Bondage is his lifestyle choice. Pain is his business. He wouldn’t know what to do with a woman who likes it subtle. What is his adoptive mother thinking, to bring an innocent like Mia into the dark heart of their infamous Club Plaisir?

A steamy contemporary retelling of the fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea.

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REVIEW: TOUCH ME NOT is the first instalment in Jen Katemi’s (aka Jennifer Lynne) contemporary, adult NAUGHTY FAIRY TALES erotic, romance series retelling some of our favorite childhood stories. This is Mia and Alexei’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Mia and Alexei) TOUCH ME NOT follows the quick building relationship between twenty-five year old Mia, and thirty-five year old Dom Alexei. Mia has an aversion to touch; not quite an aversion but touch of any sort causes her excruciating pain, and our heroine is determined to find someone, anyone who has the ability to take her beyond the physical limits of painful touch into the pleasure of sexual arousal. Enter Dom Alexei, the co-owner of the adults only, sex club Club Plaisir. What ensues is the quick building relationship between Alexei and Mia as Alexei’s touch is the magic needed to pull Mia down from her pain filled existence.

TOUCH ME NOT is an energetic read; an erotic story line focusing on the pleasure of touch- a reverse BDSM scenario (of sorts) in that our hero Alexei does not want to inflict pain but hopes to illicit the comfort and contentment of the pleasures of touch for the young woman that quickly calls to his heart.

The author offers up a little bit of background about our story line hero, a man whose earlier life on the streets came to an end when he met Masha, the woman who would raise Alexei as her own. Masha is a bit of a ‘fairy godmother’ in that Masha ‘rescues’ Mia from a life of unimaginable loneliness and pain, offering up a membership and potential happiness through Alexei and Club Plaisir. The premise is intriguing and entertaining; the characters are charismatic; the romance spicy and hot-on that note, I do struggle with the use of a certain four-letter word in all romance storylines but TOUCH ME NOT is a story of erotica wherein the word is commonly used throughout the story.

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

New release: Touch Me Not by Jen Katemi

Thank you, Sandy and The Reading Café, for having me to visit. I’m delighted to share news of my latest release, Touch Me Not. This novella is a slightly different writing adventure, in that it’s my first foray into re-imagining a classic fairy tale.

I’m primarily a steamy contemporary romance author, so I decided to take the basic premise of The Princess and the Pea and rework it into a contemporary and very steamy version in which a woman with super-sensitive skin meets a princely Dom who delivers pain for a living.

I’m not sure what possessed me when I started writing this story. Alexei, the hero of Touch Me Not, owns and works in a brothel. That’s definitely not your average hero material, I know, but he is so deeply complex and in need of someone who can save him, that I simply couldn’t resist writing his story.

Mia is a young “suburban princess” who has spent her whole life fighting the pain of overly sensitive skin and dealing with the physical isolation that comes with such hypersensitivity.

I thought it would be interesting to pair these complete opposites and see where the story took me. As I wrote Chapter One, I had no idea how these two poor souls would ever achieve their happy-ever-after, let alone a happy-for-now. Oh, the joys of being a pantser – without a plot, you have no idea where the characters are going to take you!

Along the way, I have to admit I fell in love with Alexei and Mia. Touch Me Not has now become one of my favorite stories. I’m so pleased Evernight Publishing liked it too!

Touch Me Not releases from Evernight on August 3rd.

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Jen Katemi (aka Jennifer Lynne) is an award-winning & bestselling author of steamy contemporary romance. Jen is published with Evernight Publishing, Naughty Nights Press, and as Jennifer Lynne with Red Sage. She has also forged a successful indie career starting with her popular GODS OF LOVE and FORBIDDEN series of erotic novellas.

When she’s not writing, Jen works in admin, looks after the family, pampers various cats, and tries to find a smidgen of time for her husband. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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