Oh,” she said. She sounded a little surprised, as if she hadn’t actually expected me to remember her. “Good. I guess.” My words came out deeper than I’d meant them to, more clipped. A tone I hadn’t taken with a woman in a long time. “I remember you.” A really base and awful part of me wanted to hear her confession still, not so I could give her more specific counseling and assurance, but so that I could know exactly what carnal things this girl had to apologize for. I wanted to hear her whisper those things in her breathy voice, I wanted to take her into my arms and kiss away every single tear.

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Stepping away felt like stepping onto shards of glass, and I couldn’t help myself, she was so wide-eyed and so open to my love, and it was instinct more than anything else that led to trace a small cross on her forehead. The chemistry between Tyler and Poppy is intense and palpable, and the love scenes are sizzling and sensual without being gratuitous or overly graphic. Simone manages to walk a fine line between eroticism and blasphemy, and the result is a provocative and thought-provoking story that challenges readers to question their own beliefs about love, sex, and religion. The point is, for being a holy man in a sleepy bed and breakfast town in the Midwest, I am fairly busy, so I can be forgiven for being surprised that next week when the woman returned to my confessional. She loves writing the dirtiest things that she can think of, King Arthur, sparkling water, Tarot, coffee, leggings, and learning new words daily.

She let out a long breath. “I just…the things that are weighing on me, I don’t know if I should tell them to anyone. Much less to you.” She lives in the Kansas City area with her hot cop husband, two children, and two giant dogs. (And two cats, but they're so naughty we don't talk about them.) The story itself is about a catholic priest who is our alpha delicious hero who became a priest out of guilt for a crime that a priest committed against his sister. But he still had desires and they are put to the test when a young woman comes in for confession. It’s her first time in a Catholic Church and she has her own inner struggles that she had to face up to but the chemistry between these two is explosive. They explore that chemistry that they feel for each other and try to keep their relationship a secret but both of them will have to find a way to find the peace they are searching for and also fight for what they have and to keep it.

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I considered my answer carefully. “We’re all sinners in the eyes of God. Even me. The point is not to make you feel guilt or categorize the magnitude of your sin, but to—”There was no doubt that she was crying now. I could hear her pulling the Kleenexes from the box put inside the booth for just that purpose. I could catch only the faintest suggestions of movement through the screen, what looked like glossy dark hair and what could have been the pale white of her face. That seems significantly more priest-like.” There was a long silence. “What if…do you ever have people who have done really bad things?” But in her voice—there was real pain and uncertainty and confusion. And I wanted to make it better for her. I can’t have him because he’s my older brother’s best friend. I can’t have him because I broke his heart five years ago; because he’s now engaged to someone else—someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect. Close. First, we make the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…” I could hear her echoing the words with me. “Now you tell me how long it’s been since your last confession, which was—”