Pincers of Pleasure

A Steamy Sci-Fi Romantic Comedy

By: Pippa Farthingale

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He came to audit her books. He stayed to inspect her biology.

Dr. Amanda Jones believes in two things: hard data and lab coats buttoned to the chin. As the director of the failing Crips Oceanographic Institute, she has no time for variables—especially not the tall, bearded, and infuriatingly grumpy auditor sent to shut her down. She just needs to secure her grant, fix the leaking roof, and keep her latest discovery secret.

The discovery? Callinectes eros. A rare, neon-crab with a pinch that doesn’t cause pain... it causes pure, unadulterated ecstasy.

Captain "Cutter" Vane is a man of rules. He likes safety protocols, dry socks, and silence. He does not like crawling through ventilation shafts during a hurricane with a chaotic scientist who smells like rain and trouble. He’s ready to sign the condemnation order and leave.

But nature has other plans.

When a storm locks the facility down and the "aphrodisiac crabs" escape into the ventilation system, Amanda and Cutter are trapped. The grid is failing. The water is rising. And the air is crackling with enough bio-electric static to short-circuit a pacemaker.

Nipped by the specimens and fighting a "venom" that strips away their inhibitions, the Auditor and the Scientist must work together to save the institute. But as the heat rises, they realize the most dangerous thing in the lab isn’t the high-voltage machinery...

It’s the friction.

The Pincers of Pleasure is a standalone, high-heat romantic comedy featuring a grumpy safety inspector, a stressed-out scientist, and a tank full of very helpful crustaceans.

TROPES:
Grumpy x Sunshine
Forced Proximity (Locked in a lab!)
"Accidental Dosing" (Science made me do it)
Competence Kink
Enemies to Lovers
Happily Ever After (HEA)