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The fear of getting caught is half the fun.

Romano and Albright, Book 1

Lowly art gallery assistant Caesar Romano is freely out of the closet. Now he’d just like to get out of

his Nana’s guest room. Everything—his reputation and his financial freedom—is riding on the success of

tonight’s gallery opening. If only he could shake free of the past so easily.

A mysterious gatecrasher, Dan Green, looks like a promising addition to his pending new life—until

Caesar’s ex shows up and suddenly the opening disintegrates into a half-naked dance melee. When the

glitter settles, a missing sculpture of Justin Timberlake has Caesar up to his eyebrows in extortion, intrigue

and a wild sexual adventure underneath, inside, and on top of a variety of furnishings.

As the cast of suspects piles up, so do the questions. Like who’s really blackmailing whom? And what

does a stolen paint-by-numbers clown matter when Dan is so outrageously capable of blowing Caesar’s

resistance to smithereens?

Warning: This book contains graphic language, sex, lies, intrigue, clowns, kleptomania, anal sex, oral

sex, mutual masturbation, bad driving, good cooking, and the missing head of a Justin Timberlake statue.

Not for the sour of disposition.

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Catch Me If You Can

ISBN: 978-1-60504-950-2

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Catch Me If You Can

LB Gregg

Dedication

To my husband, G.

Chapter One: Keeping It Brief

Jean Luc Pappineau

An Exhibition of Sculpted Works

Friday, 28 April

5:00-8:00 p.m.

Peter Stuhlmann Gallery

NY, NY

I felt pretty damn good about the opening, until Shep McNamara strolled through the gallery door

with a fresh new haircut and a spray-on tan and I aspirated the green olive floating in my martini. Fumbling

my glass, I watched in disbelief as Shep sauntered by with a drink in either hand. I doubted he was carrying

one for a friend. Sure, the drinks were free, but he didn’t need to double fist. I coughed, trying to dislodge

the olive, my chest seized, and Shep disappeared. What was he doing here? I coughed again, a little harder

this time.

“You need help, Caesar?”

I shook my head at Brandon, our shirtless bartender, and hacked desperately into my soggy cocktail

napkin. My nose watered; tears blurred my vision. The fucking olive wouldn’t budge. I tried to expel it as

gracefully as I could but it was… lodged… or something.

“Put your arms over your head,” Mallory Albright instructed. The woman I most needed to impress

this evening examined me through clever Lafont frames, her crimson lips pursed in concern. “That will lift

your diaphragm.”

She demonstrated by pulling her shoulders back and lifting her own diaphragm, one slender hand to

her ribs. Her jet hair swung forward, making an angled point under her chin.

Normally, I’d have delivered a smart comment. Instead, I gasped, wheezed and banged on my

sternum with a closed fist to no avail. That garnish wouldn’t budge.

Brandon jumped the table to whack me on the back—the flat of his hand shoved me into Mallory. I

horked up the olive, spitting it directly into her drink. She didn’t flinch at the delicate plop it made on

reentry or when droplets of gin spattered her bare arm. She merely flagged a waiter, who rushed over with a

stack of paper napkins. He handed us both another much-appreciated martini, his silver tray dipping

precariously close to the ornamental bust of Mayor Bloomberg.

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