Gone to Texas to Get My Man Back

A dirty-funny tale set in the contemporary Wild West of the Texas oil boom, where the new F-word is "fracking." Fish-out-of-water Professor Susan Storch has got love and the old F-word on her mind as she searches for her missing man, oilfield roughneck Hank Jones. And if that means driving dusty back roads, sleeping in her car, playing strip poker with a grizzled auto mechanic, chaining herself to a sign in P.E.N.I.S. Plaza, and prowling a man camp full of 600 horny oil workers after midnight, well, sometimes a Gal's Got to Do What a Gal's Got to Do.

Stand-alone novella (48,000 words). WARNING: Includes the notorious love poem, Sonnet to a P****. Absolutely no minors!

Dr. Susan Storch, PhD, is a respected teacher of writing and literature at Tulane University in New Orleans. To her students, she’s known as "Professor Starch" for her stiff, proper demeanor and shutdown social life.

Rugged Hank Jones is a roughneck from the South Texas oil fields getting a degree in Petroleum Engineering. When he spots the classy lady teaching an English course, he signs up in a hurry. Susan assigns the class to write a short piece of erotica, but when blue-collar Hank turns in a paper written in earthy man-talk, she finds it crude, disgusting and ooo, so HOT!

Talk about oil and water! Hank is light, sweet crude to Susan's Perrier. He spends his spare time working on engines. She likes to curl up with a good book. But in Hank, Susan finds a good hard man who can make her engine purr.

Sparks fly but things get complicated. When Hank disappears from campus with no forwarding address, quiet, bookish Professor Susan Storch decides the only way to get her man back is to go find him, even if she has to brave the new Wild West of South Texas in all its fracking frenzy, with hundreds of new wells and thousands of sweaty workers.