Voyeur: Fifth Anniversary Special Edition

© 2023 by Fiona Cole All rights reserved. Cover Designer: Indie Girl Promotions Interior Designer: Indie Girl Promotions No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, actual events, or locales is entirely coincidental. contents Playlist Foreword Annotation Key Voyeur Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Epilogue An After-Midnight Gift Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Performer Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Other books by Fiona About the Author Notes playlist I Wanna Get Better – Bleachers Mess Is Mine – Vance Joy HAPPINESS – NEEDTOBREATHE Moment of Weakness – Tenille Arts Haunted – Taylor Swift Looking Out – Brandi Carlile Dreams – Brandi Carlile Sober Up – AJR (feat Rivers Cuomo) Dream – Bishop Briggs Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls Hurricane Drunk – Florence + the Machine OK – Robin Schulz (feat. James Blunt) Work – Jimmy Eat World The Cure – Lady Gaga One Foot – Walk the Moon To the readers. Ride or die, bitches. foreword Five years later and here I sit in front of another blank screen wondering how I put into words how special this book is to me. It changed my life. It changed my path. It changed me as a writer. It changed me as a person. It changed everything. I attribute Voyeur becoming what it has to me because of a variety of things coming together at the right time in the right way. Between writing, the cover, the timing, and the most amazing readers of all time, it became my bestselling book that took me from feeling like I was dabbling in a hobby to starting a business. Five years ago—well, actually more because I started writing it about six months before it was released. I know, I know… I’m such a slow writer. Haha. So, let’s try again… Five-ish years ago, I had this idea. I’d been eyeball deep in romance books centered around sex clubs because they’re totally my jam, and searching for a student-teacher romance because I felt like I’d read them all, and I couldn’t find any more to hold my interest. This is the perfect storm for creating a book idea for me—not being able to find a book I want to read. Therefore, I decide to write the book I want to read. Enter the idea for Voyeur. Like most book ideas, it started loosely with a plan that quickly got tossed around and changed into something different. When I went to write about a sex club, it didn’t sit right. Why? That’s a solid question that I asked my mind when it was all like, “Nah, bro. Let’s write something else. I don’t really know what else, but not that.” So, back to the drawing board, where I came up with a live performance club where people could select their fantasies and watch them come to life. This really played into how much I loved writing about exhibitionism and voyeurism. The other big role in the book was the student-teacher aspect. Another plan that didn’t play out the way I originally thought. Of course, the first thing that came to mind was the fear of them getting caught. How would it play out? What were the consequences? But that didn’t feel right either. I was never able to come up with answers. So, I was left with digging deeper into why Callum and Oaklyn struggled to find their HEA. In the end, as much as my mind was being a bitch about not going with the flow, I was forever grateful because it pushed me to take what I knew and loved and write it in my own way. One of my biggest tips for anyone writing is to write the book you want to read—not the one you think you should be writing to have the most success. Because at the end of the process, if your book sinks or swims, you’re left with a story you’re proud of, and I knew that no matter what happened with Voyeur, this was a story I was proud of—a story I would want to read again and again. Writing Voyeur was step one. The second magical moment was the cover. I call it magical because, up until that moment, I have been spending hours upon hours upon hours scouring stock photo sites, hoping to stumble upon something that gave me butterflies when I looked at it and made me gasp. The photo that left me knowing without a doubt that it was the one. However, I decided to try something a little different with Voyeur. My poor, little frugal heart decided to try to step out into the world of exclusive photos. The way I would have to talk to myself before exploring all the beautiful photos, knowing damn well I would end up crying while I paid for it. But Voyeur was different—I had so much confidence in this story, and I wanted to give it more than a stock photo. Or at least try to. Spoiler alert: looking through exclusive photos is not any easier than searching through stock photos. And I have no idea what I typed into Instagram to get it to grace me with the