Reviewed by Jen B.

TITLE: Stripped Clean
AUTHOR: Ellis Carrington
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 220 pages
BLURB: Carlos O’Shea is stuck. He knocked-up a girl in college after a night of too much drinking, and then married her to be honorable. With little money, fewer options, and no degree, he winds up cleaning the floors in a small town gentleman’s club and thinking desperate thoughts about the handsome owner that’ll lead to nothing but trouble.

Greg Moorehouse only invested in a nudie bar to help his best buddy out of a financial crisis. Now his drug-dealing ex boyfriend, his reverend father, and a parade of surgically-enhanced DD’s are driving him insane. But what’s really stripped him of all good sense is his growing obsession with his married employee, Carlos.

They circle each other in a push-pull of misunderstandings and growing attraction. Carlos needs to get his boss out of his head, and Greg can’t abide cheaters and married men. So what are a strip club owner and the guy who cleans going to do with their undeniable desires?

REVIEW:

This story takes a bit of set up to get going.  Greg meets Carlos right away, but then things happen that lead up to Greg becoming part owner in the Club where Carlos works.  There is immediate attraction, but a few things get in their way.

Carlos is a pretty down-on-his-luck guy.  From the loss of his first boyfriend, the issues with his father, his discharge from the military, marriage that is basically being held together by mutual debt, all of which lead to his current occupation at the Club.

Then, we have Greg, who has also dealt with some crap along the way.  He has daddy issues as well and is recently getting over his last relationship with his now drug-addicted ex, who also happens to be his best friend and now Club co-owner.  Due to reasons surrounding the way his father left, and how his last relationship ended, he is strictly against cheating, especially with a married man.  So, he fights his strong attraction to Carlos for the most part, but allows their friendship to grow.

Needless to say, things do not get resolved with Carlos and his wife for some time, so there is quite a bit of sexual tension between Carlos and Greg as they work together and help each other out with stuff.  The extenuating circumstances that led to Carlos getting married in the first place also end up being what pushes him to finally break free.  Like I said, it takes a while for them to have the opportunity to act on their feelings, and even after they do, they still have some issues to work through.

When they finally do take that step, it is worth the wait.  They have great chemistry which has been building for quite some time.  There were a few things that come up that never seemed to get resolved, and I wouldn’t mind seeing another story with them as they build their new relationship.  If you like a story that takes things slowly while waiting for the opportunity and situation to be right before things happen, give this enjoyable story a try.

Jen rates it –

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