{"product_id":"9780778315780","title":"Stranger","description":"\u003cp\u003eI pay strangers to sleep with me. I have my reasons….\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut they're not the ones you'd expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor starters, I'm a funeral director taking over my dad's business. Not exactly the kind of person you'd expect to fork over cash for the lust and urgency only live skin-to-skin contact can create. Looking at me, you wouldn't have a clue I carry this little secret so close it creases up like the folds of a fan. Tight. Personal. Ready to unravel in the heat of the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnsurprisingly, my line of work brings me face-to-face with loss. So I decided long ago that paying for sex would be one of the best (and arousing) ways to save myself from the one thing that would eventually cut far too deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Sam was a mistake. Literally. I signed on to \"pick up\" a stranger at a bar, but took Sam home instead. And now that I've felt his heat, his sweat and everything else, can I really go back to impersonal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet's just hope he never finds out about my other life.…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harlequin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010992685296,"sku":"9780778315780","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780778315780_p0.jpg?v=1763660958","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780778315780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}