**Sex didn’t scare her…** Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks’s first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter. *This thing beyond seduction did.* This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam’s career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!