Brief Encounter

Life imitates art when Elizabeth Carlisle's trip to an erotic art exhibit leads to a steamy encounter with a sexy Italian stranger.

Alice Gaines likes her fiction hot, hot, hot. Alice has a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She shares a house in Oakland, California, with her pet corn snake and a stray cat that lives in her yard. When Alice isn't making up stories in her head, she spends her time cooking, gardening, and listening to her favorite band, Tower of Power.