ROMANTIC COMEDY A dirty-funny tale set in the contemporary Wild West of the Texas oil boom, where the new f-word is fracking. Fish-out-of-water Professor Susan Storch has love and the old f-word on her mind as she searches for her missing man, oilfield roughneck Hank Jones.

Stand-alone novella, no cliffhanger (44,000 words). Rated 18+ for intense, explicit sex scenes.

Dr. Susan Storch, PhD, is a respected teacher of writing and literature at the University of Texas. To her students, she’s known as "Professor Starch" for her stiff, proper demeanor and shutdown social life.

Rugged Hank Jones is a roughneck from the South Texas oil fields getting a degree in Petroleum Engineering. Hank needs a language elective and when he spots the classy babe teaching a creative writing course, he signs up in a hurry. Susan assigns the class to write a short piece of erotica, but when blue-collar Hank turns in a paper written in earthy man-talk, she finds it crude, disgusting and ooo, so HOT!

Talk about oil and water! Hank is light, sweet crude to Susan's Perrier. He spends his spare time working on engines. She likes to curl up with a good book. But in Hank, Susan finds a good hard man who can make her engine purr.

Sparks fly but life gets complicated. Hank disappears from campus with no forwarding address. Quiet, bookish Professor Susan Storch decides the only way to get her man back is to go find him, even if she has to brave the new Wild West of South Texas in all its fracking frenzy, with hundreds of new wells and thousands of workers.

And if that means taking Taser lessons, driving dusty back roads, sleeping in a car with a broken lock, chaining herself to a oil company sign, and prowling a man camp full of 600 horny men after midnight, well, a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do.

WARNING: Includes the notorious love poem, Sonnet to a P**** . Absolutely no minors!