Honey Belle Hargrove once dreamed of becoming a psychologist. Life, as it tends to do, had other plans.

These days she runs Honey’s Happy Ending Hide-A-Way, an unconventional little business wedged into a crumbling Tennessee strip mall — right between Big Earl’s smoke shop and a lawyer who specializes in “other unfortunate developments.” It is not the career she pictured. It might, however, be the one she was born for.

Because every man who walks through Honey’s door brings a lot more than money. There’s the bored husband covering up a tractor-related lie. The exhausted father who just wants ten uninterrupted minutes. The executive who needs, for once, to let someone else take control. The deacon carrying a Bible in one hand and a peach cobbler in the other. And the lonely widower who arrives with a genuinely homicidal chicken.

They come to Honey with desires, secrets, insecurities, oddly specific requests, and some of the most catastrophic parking skills in the state of Tennessee. She gives them pleasure — but what most of them are really after is permission to finally tell the truth.

Outrageous, explicit, unexpectedly tender, and gloriously unhinged, Honey’s Happy Ending Hide-A-Way is a Southern erotic comedy about loneliness, shame, marriage, grief, desire, and the peculiar things people confess when someone finally sits down and listens. You’ll laugh, you’ll blush, and — against all odds — you might get a little misty over a woman, a strip mall, and one very angry bird.

For adult readers only. Contains explicit sexual content, strong language, sex-work themes, and unconventional adult desires. All sexual characters are consenting adults.