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Dirty Dining
E.M. Lynley
Jeremy Linden’s a PhD student researching an HIV vaccine. He’s always short of money, and when biotech startup PharmaTek reduces funding for his fellowship, he’s tempted to take a job at a men’s dining club as a serving boy. The uniforms are skimpy, and he’s expected to remove an item of clothing after each course. He can handle that, but he soon discovers there’s more on the menu here than fine cuisine. How far will he go to pay his tuition, and will money get in the way when he realizes he’s interested in more from one of his gentlemen?
Brice Martin is an attorney for a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. When he’s asked to take a client to the infamous Dinner Club, he finds himself unexpectedly turned on by the atmosphere and especially by his server, Remy. He senses there’s more to the sexy young man than meets the eye. The paradox fascinates him, and he can’t get enough of Remy.
Their relationship quickly extends beyond the club and sex. But the trust and affection they’ve worked to achieve may crumble when Jeremy discovers Brice’s VC firm is the one that pulled the plug on PharmaTek—and Jeremy’s research grant.
Play the Newlywed Game with Brice & Jeremy from EM Lynley’s Dirty Dining!
Today please join us for a NSFW version of the “Newlywed Game.” I’m your host, Nosy Jones.
We’ve got Brice and Jeremy playing. Let’s see how well they know each other!
We’ll start with Jeremy. Thanks for playing the Newlywed Game.
Jeremy: Brice and I aren’t actually married. Not yet. We haven’t actually talked about it, even though it’s been legal in California for over a year.
Nosy: Well, I guess that doesn’t matter, technically. Do you want to marry Brice?
Jeremy (blushing): Are we live now? I-uh, I wouldn’t mind it.
Nosy: That’s nice and enthusiastic. Well, let’s get started with the questions! How did you two meet?
Jeremy (blushing again): I was kind of his waiter at this, uh, club.
Nosy: Did he give you a big tip?”
Jeremy (still blushing, looking around nervously): Yes, he did.
Nosy: I see your eyes kind of twinkling there, thinking about that tip.
Jeremy: It was big.
Nosy: Who said “I love you” first?
Jeremy: Brice did. We were in the middle of an argument at the time. I was so mad I didn’t notice until he’d left. Then I was even more mad at him for saying it when I was mad at him.
Nosy: What’s Brice’s favorite snack? Besides you, of course. (Nosy winks)
Jeremy: Post-coital bacon.
Nosy: We all like that, don’t we? And where was your first date?
Jeremy: Oh, that’s tricky.
Nosy: What will Brice say?
Jeremy: He’d say it was at Boulevard, the restaurant in San Francisco.
Nosy: What gets Brice really turned on? Beside the obvious.
Jeremy: If I suck on his earlobes.
Nosy: And does Brice have a favorite outfit he thinks looks best on you?
Jeremy: He’s mentioned he likes me in my cycling shorts.
Nosy: Does Brice think you have enough sex?
Jeremy (coughing): I’m not sure how we could have more. So, yes.
Nosy: How nice for you two. And what’s Brice’s favorite position?
Jeremy: On our sides, him spooning me.
Nosy: Great. Now let’s get Brice in here to see how well you did!
(Brice comes in and sits down next to Jeremy, then gives him a little peck on the cheek).
Nosy: Welcome back, Brice. Did they keep you entertained in the back while I was grilling Jeremy?
Brice: They’re watching porn back there….
Nosy: I can see why with a sexy partner like Jeremy here that porn probably doesn’t much interest you.
Brice: Is that a question?
Nosy: Right, you’re a lawyer. I forgot. No, that’s not an official question. I’m just trying to make conversation here.
(Brice shrugs and glances over at Jeremy)
Nosy: Well, let’s get to the questions then. Brice, how did you and Jeremy meet?
Brice: He was serving me dinner at a men’s club.
Nosy: That’s close. He said he was a waiter, so I’ll give you half a point for that.
Brice. Waiter? Cute. He was not a waiter.
Nosy: Did you give him a tip for his services?
Brice: I think I gave him a handjob. Or was it a blowjob?
(Jeremy shrinks back against the seat) I don’t think that’s what Nosy meant….
Nosy: No, it wasn’t but I’ll give you an extra point for getting right into the smut for us. And Brice, who said “I love you first?”
Brice: I did.
Nosy: Another point. So, Brice, what’s your favorite snack?
Brice: It’s not really a snack, but they make these amazing meatloaf sandwiches at this diner near our place.
Nosy: I’m sorry. Jeremy said you enjoy post-coital bacon.
Brice: I do. I didn’t think you wanted me to say that in public, Jeremy.
Jeremy shrugs
About E.M.
EM Lynley writes gay erotic romance. She loves books where the hero gets the guy and the loving is 11 on a scale of 10. A Rainbow Award winner and EPIC finalist, EM has worked in high finance, high tech, and in the wine industry, though she’d rather be writing hot, romantic man-on-man action. She spent 10 years as an economist and financial analyst, including a year as a White House Staff Economist, but only because all the intern positions were filled. Tired of boring herself and others with dry business reports and articles, her creative muse is back and naughtier than ever. She has lived and worked in London, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., but the San Francisco Bay Area is home for now.
She is the author of Sex, Lies & Wedding Bells, the Precious Gems series from Dreamspinner Press, and the Rewriting History series starring a sexy jewel thief, among others.
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Review
Title: Dirty Dining
Author: E.M. Lynley
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Super Novel (323 pages)
ISBN: 978-1-63216-626-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (19th January 2015)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Prime
Blurb: Jeremy Linden’s a PhD student researching an HIV vaccine. He’s always short of money, and when biotech start-up PharmaTek reduces funding for his fellowship, he’s tempted to take a job at a men’s dining club as a serving boy. The uniforms are skimpy and he’s expected to remove an item of clothing after he course. He can handle that, but he soon discovers there’s more on the menu than fine cuisine. How far will he go to pay his tuition, and will money get in the way when he realises he’s interested in more from one of his gentlemen?
Brice Martin is an attorney for a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. When he’s asked to take a client to the infamous Dinner Club, he finds himself unexpectedly turned on by the atmosphere and especially by his server, Remy. He senses there’s more to the sexy young man than meets the eye. The paradox fascinates him, and he can’t get enough of Remy.
Their relationship quickly extends beyond the club and sex. But the trust and affection they’ve worked to achieve may crumble when Jeremy discovers Brice’s VC firm is the one that pulled the plug on PharmaTek – and Jeremy’s research grant.
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Review: I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Despite the length it is a very easy story to read and get into. Yes, it is very raunchy with some aspect of sex in a public place (well, “dinner” club), but that is really only relevant to about the first half of the book. I can’t even say that the story moves along quickly, because it doesn’t. As I just said, the first half concerns the club and actually working or being a guest of the so called dinner club. However, at the same time we do get an in-depth look into both the main characters – personally and professionally.
Jeremy is a microbiologist, in the fifth year of his PhD and is not only worried about project funding but more especially, money to live off of. So when he is approached by a random man telling him he should think about modelling and slips him a card to the “Dinner Club” – Jeremy does a lot of thinking but in the end takes the opportunity to make more money than tutoring or anything else could make him. What comes next is his crash course into the world of working as a performer at a gentleman’s club. This is where he meets Brice, aka Mr Green, as a client on his first night of work. Brice is a lawyer and first attends the Club when one of the partners of the firm he works at finds out he’s gay. Immediately there are sparks between each other. While Jeremy finds it difficult to separate work from his heart, Brice is willing to give it a damn good go at it. But the results of this are more than a little mixed and Jeremy becomes very popular among the clientele of the Dinner Club to say the least.
For anyone who is a scientist, specifically microbiologists, will understand when I say that I got pulled in by the first page alone. Anything outside of science that uses the term VLP (virus-like particles) in proper context is already onto a winner. Another thing that this book does well is depict the trials and fun (very heavy on the sarcasm) that it is to be a PhD student/candidate. I won’t go into any details because it will just end in me ranting. Of course, I don’t think my parents would be too impressed if I went to work at a gentleman’s club when scholarships run out, but for a person who knows all too well the position, main character Jeremy is very relatable.
A lot of time is spent at the Dinner Club and I was amazed that I didn’t find myself becoming bored at reading about the club. I think some of the other “boys” Jeremy worked with really helped there. Though their appearances are only brief, these guys have a lot of presence through the words. However, when things move away from the Dinner Club, I enjoyed the tension that is ever present between Brice and Jeremy.
There’s a little twist at the end where Jeremy and Brice’s professional worlds clash, just as their personal worlds start to mesh and work really well together. It was an interesting bit of tension, though I think that Jeremy really could have had a spectacular hissy fit because if there were to happen to me, I honestly would have a full hissy fit before apologising. I understand why this twist at the end is in the book, I saw it coming, I even like it and it by no means takes away from the book, but part of me questions necessity of clashing Jeremy and Brice’s professional lives together. Another thing that sort of stems from this, is that there a couple of detail inaccuracies in the blurb but it’s nothing major it’s more to do with the order of events in the book are strictly the same as the blurb. I’ll let that slide, I reckon.
I really enjoyed the fact that I could get to know these guys – both major and minor characters – and I loved the details that accompanied. This is well written, easy to read and the characters develop nicely along the way. In all, this is a lot of (sexy) fun in the form of a novel.