Combustion

by Elia Winters

Overview

Astrid Bailey is content living alone, balancing her career as a contract machinist with her true passion: making "felicitation devices" for her discerning female clients. The upcoming World's Fair, with its substantial cash prize, is an opportunity for her to open the shop she's always imagined and solve her financial woes. With questionable credentials, though, she's unable to enter without a reputable businessman to vouch for her.

Eli Rutledge, noted watchmaker, needs to enter the World's Fair to maintain his reputation as an innovator, but he's fresh out of ideas. With no other options, he agrees to Astrid's proposal, lending his good name to her scandalous invention. When construction heats up, so does their chemistry--and the complications. Astrid is unaccustomed to accepting help, especially from a privileged businessman like Eli, even if she can't keep her hands off him. Eli is losing his fight to an attraction that could spell professional disaster and heartbreak. As the Fair date approaches, Astrid and Eli must decide how far they'll go for the business...and for each other.

Warning: contains scandalous "product testing," steamy f/f and m/f encounters, and gratuitous liberties with an alternative-history Steampunk London, all in the quest for happily ever after.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162274988
Publisher:	Cecaelia Press
Publication date:	02/15/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	210 KB

About the Author

RITA™ Award-winning author Elia Winters writes geeky, kinky, cozy erotic romance. She is a fat, tattooed, polyamorous bisexual who loves petting cats and fighting the patriarchy. Elia holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and teaches at a small rural high school, where she also runs the drama club. She balances her love of words with a love of baking, crafting, and a bottomless well of geekiness; in her spare time, she is equally likely to be found playing tabletop games, kneading bread, cross-stitching, or binge-watching Marie Kondo.

Elia grew up blessed with an artsy, creative, quirky family that nurtured her eccentricities and helped shape her into the woman she is today. She started sneaking her mother’s romance novels when she was way too young for them, and in Catholic high school, kept her friends entertained by writing a steady stream of explicit stories while somehow never getting caught. Now, sex education and kink-positive feminism have become a cornerstone of Elia’s brand, including reviewing sex toys and presenting at kink conventions. She currently lives in western Massachusetts with her loving husband and their weird pets.