Clutch My Pearls is a podcast where the host, Emily, doesn't read erotic fiction and her two friends, Barbara and Vanessa, tell her all about their favorite smut! Join them every Tuesday as they dive into a different raunchy read and find out if Emily clutches her pearls! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Come enjoy some ice cream with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Butcher & Blackbird” by Brynne Weaver! This dark romance features Sloane and Rowan who are rival murderers. But don’t worry, they only kill bad people! When they decide to join forces for a friendly competition, things get VERY friendly. This book has it all! Mummy mommy iss…
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You’re invited to Barbara’s Dino birthday party with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Triceratops and Bottoms” by Lola Faust! When super horned up sex addict Erin gets bored with what the alien future has to offer, she travels back in time to have her needs met! Unfortunately Erin couldn’t go back to WW1 trench foot times, so she goes to…
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Come celebrate the one year anniversary of the podcast with The Girls! Our first episode came out one year ago, and to celebrate, Emily and Vanessa birthday blindside Barbara! Emily (yes, Emily) is presenting her very first book: “Icebreaker” by Hannah Grace! When bossy figure skater Anastasia Allen is forced to share a skating rink with cinnamon r…
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Come pump gas with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Reckless”, the fourth book from the Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver! This book follows Winter as she comes to Chestnut Springs to reconcile with her sister Summer (from book 1 and Episode 25). Just as she is getting into town, she meets hunky bull rider Theo, who manages to tell…
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Come stretch out your groin with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Play Along”, the fourth book from The Windy City series by Liz Tomforde! When hottie shortstop Isaiah talks to PT cutie Kennedy K in the bathroom, he is suddenly sooo obsessed with her. But they work together which is soooo forbidden..too bad they just got married in Vegas…
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Come say “yes sir” with The Girls! From The Salacious Players Club series, Vanessa is presenting “Praise” by Sarah Cate! When Charlie (Charlotte for short and direct) breaks up with her stupid boyfriend, she has to go collect a rent check from his father, Emerson Grant. Little does she know she’ll be on her hands and knees begging for daddy’s prais…
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Come experience a whole new world with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Desperate Measures” from the Wicked Villain series by Katee Robert! This is a totally different interpretation of the Aladdin universe! When Yasmina (not Jasmine, but yes Jasmine) wakes up to the news her dad is dead, she must run with consensual non consent into Jaf…
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Come slam the door with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Unhinged” by Vera Valentine! This book truly lives up to its name and will leave you wondering if your door is a descendent of Zeus! The story is entirely from the door’s POV (yes, it’s a literal DOOR). It’s the door to Tana’s apartment, he’s been keeping an eye on her, and he want…
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Come confess your sins with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Sinners Anonymous” by Somme Sketcher. In an effort to save her nature preserve, bird loving Rory (or Aurora for short…) is engaged to a bad bulldog-looking man named Big Al. But as she soon finds out, his hottie nephew Angelo is the one with the real power. Is it too late for h…
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Come save humanity with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting the world premiere of “Celestial Glorbosis: Of Peace and Poimals” by Jace Hammercock. This episode is unique because The Girls are joined by Jace Hammercock (pen name of Geoff Ramsey and Gavin Free from the Regulation Podcast) for an exclusive interview to discuss whatever the hell …
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Come enjoy getting scared with The Girls! This week Vanessa is continuing her bad boy era with “Haunting Adeline” by HD Carlton. This book was not only heavily recommended by our listeners, it comes with a FULL page of trigger warnings! The Girls are all in and along for the ride…but ready to get out by the end. When scare-happy Adeline moves into …
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Count to three and come with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Maddest Obsession,” the second book of the Made Series also seen in episodes 2 and 16! In this mafia romance we have Christian Allister, the cold, controlling, orderly, OCD counting, sexy mafia man who also works for the FBI! Then there’s Gianna, our sexy, sassy, can’t be …
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Come pay off your father’s debt with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Den of Vipers” by K.A. Knight! This why choose (wide shoes) dark romance has everything…maybe too much for some! When mafia hotties Ryder, Kenzo, Garrett, and Diesel collect their debt in the form of sassy babe Roxy…she doesn’t go willingly. Thankfully everyone involve…
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Come test positive with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Kissing the Coronavirus” by M.J. Edwards! This 15 page novella (if you don’t count page 9) was brought as revenge on Vanessa for blindsiding Barbara in the July Patreon-exclusive episode. When woman-in-STEM Dr. Alexa Ashingtonford is working on a cure for the newly discovered COVID…
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Come climb Jacob’s Ladder with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Pucking Wrong Guy” by C.R. Jane! As we continue the “Pucking Wrong" series we started in episode 27, we meet Ari Lancaster and Blake (or Serena!). When Ari crosses paths with his long lost foster care first love, he doesn’t let her know he recognizes her. Instead he brin…
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Come ask “What’s in the box?!” with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting with a physical copy of “Ransom” by Julie Garwood! This book is set in the medieval Scottish highlands and follows our FMC Gillian and MMC Brodick! There are also at least 13 more people and since Emily is not into historical romance or meeting a lot of characters, Barba…
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Come throw lettuce heads out of the top window with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Heartless” by Elsie Silver! Part of the Chestnut Springs series, this book brings us back to the cowboy brothers we met in Episode 25 “Flawless”. This book is focused on grumpy cowboy Cade who needs help with his little boy Luke. When fun city girl Willa…
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Come collect a debt with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Ruthless Creatures” by JT Geissinger! Part of the Queens and Monsters series, this book brings us back into the world of mafia romance. Five years after Natalie’s soon to be husband disappears, tall hunky Kage with a K shows up to collect a debt. But what is the debt?! Don’t start…
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Follow The Girls to the second star to the right and straight on till morning…to Neverland! This week Vanessa is presenting “Devourer of Men” by Nikki St Crowe! Part of a series of the reimagined Peter Pan universe, this book is focused on Wendy, Captain Hook, and the crocodile. But this Croc is a man who eats..peanuts? When Wendy goes missing for …
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Come cure your daddy issues with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Caught Up” by Liz Tomforde! The Girls continue the Windy City Series, first seen in episodes 1 and 21! When independent pastry chef Miller Montgomery leaves her commitment-free life in a van to come nanny for Major League Baseball Daddy Kai Rhodes, it’s a home run! As alwa…
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Come snuggle your favorite pillow with The Girls! This week Barbara is hungover and Vanessa is presenting a cure with “Stuffed” by Sylvia Morrow! Gamer girl Anne can’t stand human touch, so she connects DEEPLY with her favorite…pillow. Yes. Her pillow. It may look like any other pillow, but it has a magical phoenix feather in it! Of course. So as A…
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Put on your mask and go undercover with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Velvet” by Lisette Marshall! When Princess Viviette senses trouble in her medieval times kingdom, she goes to her Dad’s right hand Spymaster, Jaghar. Jaghar just so happens to fall in love with Viviette, but his way of getting information from the enemy involves sed…
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Pay off your student loans with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Morning Glory Milking Farm” by C.M. Nascosta! When no-show-sock-wearing millennial Violet is down on her luck, she gets a job at the local pharmaceutical milking farm! When busy business bull Rourke comes to be milked, Violet realizes he’s not like the other Minotaurs. This…
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Come cure cancer with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood! This is Barbara’s comfort read, and if the Libra inside her allowed it - her favorite book. When women-in-STEM scientist Olive Smith starts fake dating big-handed professor Adam Carlsen… Bunsen burners get cranked up! This episode will have you …
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Hit that subscribe button with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “For The Fans” by Nyla K! This book features Kyron and Avi, stepbrothers who have nothing in common. But when strapped for cash, they do what any Busy Business Boys would do…they start an OnlyFans! What starts out as “just for the fans” and a way to get money becomes so much …
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Go down with the ship of “No icks” with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting a truly unhinged request from Emily… “Conquered by Clippy” by Leonard Delaney. When busy business blogger and woman in STEM Christie Aackerlund is sent on an assignment by Phil Gates she learns how beneficial it can be to receive assistance from a familiar friend…Cli…
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Come blow out your birthday candle with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Birthday Girl” by Penelope Douglas. When hard working hottie Jordan is alone on her birthday (because her boyfriend Cole sucks), she meets a hard working hottie stranger, Pike. Jordan and Pike have an instant connection, but Pike isn’t like the other guys he’s Cole’…
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Come end Gender Discrimination with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “The Devil You Know” by Elizabeth O’Roark! This enemies to lovers book follows hot lawyer Ben Tate and his coworker busy business lawyer Gemma Charles. These two have a lot of BANTER and the girls love it! Do they actually end gender discrimination or does it just contin…
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Come stalk your soulmate with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Pucking Wrong Number” by CR Jane! When hot hockey player Lincoln Daniel accidentally texts mystery babe Monroe, sparks fly and stalking intensifies! This book will have you questioning how far is too far to go for love. Is it okay to have a tracker on or…IN your crush? Be…
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Come read your dead dad’s will with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Montana Sky” by Nora Roberts! Barbara brought this artifact all the way from her angsty teen years and her step mom’s bookcase! In this book we have three estranged sisters who have to live on their father’s ranch for a full year so they can get their inheritance. Of co…
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Try to hang on for 8 seconds with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Flawless” by Elsie Silver! When superstar bull rider Rhett needs some image rehabbing after a big milk fiasco, his boss’s daughter Summer is assigned to keep an eye on him. This episode includes some of your favorite book tropes and some of our least favorite technical di…
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Brace for impact with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Ice Planet Barbarians” by Ruby Dixon. This book starts with Georgie being kidnapped in the middle of the night and waking up on the way to an unknown planet! On the way there, the spaceship crash lands onto an icy cold planet full of snow and big sexy blue aliens! Georgie is supposed…
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Help raise a baby with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Nanny for The Neighbors” by Lily Gold! Cyrus, Sebastian and Jack do everything (everything!) together, but when a baby appears on the doorstep, they realize they can’t do this alone. Thankfully their hot neighbor, Beth, is a nanny! Beth doesn’t just take care of the baby, she takes …
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Head to an open house down under with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “A Sinners Promise” by Kylie Kent! This book was recommended by none other than “Shirley” our infamous one star reviewer from episode two! When busy business real estate woman Eloise is asked to show a house to mafia boss Gio, things get spicy! This episode is all over…
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Come shoot your shot with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “The Right Move” by Liz Tomforde. This book is the sequel to our Episode One feature “Mile High”! We are back in The Windy City, but this time we are focusing on the hot new captain of the Devils basketball team Ryan Shay and his sister’s coworker Indy! It’s a real grumpy-sunshine…
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Come with The Girls to a wedding and yell “I Object!” This week Barbara is presenting “The Wedding Crasher” by Mia Sosa. In this millennial rom-com of a book, follow Dean and Solange as they fake date their way into love. In this book we go axe throwing, fake screw driving to Pony by Ginuwine, watch a sex show, and even help with a birth! Could thi…
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Head to the Southwest Omegaverse with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting a HOT OFF THE PRESSES book, “Bride” by Ali Hazelwood! The girls barely cover everything that happens in the book, but it has them all KNOTTED up. When vampire Misery Lark is sent to marry Lowe Moreland to keep the peace between species, things get Baja blasted! Close t…
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Come along with The Girls and VIVA LAS VEGAS! This week Vanessa is presenting “Knot So Lucky” by Trilina Pucci! What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, except when a judge makes you stay! This book follows busy business esthetician Elle and the hot shot NFL quarterback Crew Matthews after a night of partying..and their wedding!? Even th…
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Put on your wide shoes and come to a hockey game with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting one of her favorite books, “Pucking Around” by Emily Rath. In this ‘why choose hockey romance’ we meet Rachel who is not like the other girls, and the newest physical therapist for a hockey team of hotties! When Rachel starts a relationship with Caleb, …
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Come burn down a gas station with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting “Sweetest Oblivion” by Danielle Lori from the Made series! When hot mob boss Nicolas is set to marry sweet Elena’s younger sister, things don’t go quite as planned. Nicolas only wants to smoke cigs and make his haters to choose whether they keep their left or right hand. C…
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Come to parents weekend with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner! When cool girl Cassie meets a hot female doctor at a bar they have a hot and heavy one night stand, until the next morning when Cassie realizes the hot doc is actually her friends mom! This episode is steamy and has everything women want! Hi…
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You’re invited to come to the 80s with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Maneater” by Emily Antionette. The book follows Shane, who is a virgin-witch-nerd and Elle, who is a mega-babe-succubus! Shane isn’t like the other boys, he’s a good boy and when he saves Elle (after a lot of asking for consent!) from some sketchy witches she makes h…
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Grab your AirPods and cross The River Styx with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting a listener’s recommendation of “Neon Gods” by Katee Roberts. When Zeus announces he is engaged to Persephone (news to her!) she runs away to Hades in the Underworld. This book is set in a modern day Olympus, which is basically Gotham City… so does that make H…
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Get a suntan, read a book, and kiss under the moonlight with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Twisted Games” by Ana Huang. When stoic bodyguard Rhys Larson is assigned to Princess Bridget Von Ascheberg, he realizes she is not like the other girls. Rhys doesn’t break the rules, but Bridget has a bucket list and love is risky! The Girls ar…
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Take a guilt trip home for the holidays with The Girls! This week Vanessa is presenting “Mistletoe Bet” by Maren Moore. When busy business woman Quinn comes home for Christmas and runs into festive small town doctor Parker, the grumpy sunshine dynamic sets in. Even Barbara is clutching her pearls this week! Can Parker get Quinn to fall for Christma…
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Put on your comfy pants and buy a Christmas Tree farm with The Girls! This week Barbara is presenting Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison. This friends to lovers book has the girls getting all heated and it’s not because of the hot coco! When Stella enters an Instagram contest to save her tree farm, she persuades her NYC bff Luka (ayeee) to pretend to …
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Write a letter with The Girls and throw it in the fire to summon Santa..err Satan. This week Barbara is presenting our first repeat author episode with Satan: A Christmas Monster Romance by Layla Fae. In this book, Daisy has a horrible sister, neglectful family and dyslexia! Daisy’s dyslexia gets her into a fiery situation with the devil himself. T…
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Fire up the group chat, get drunk, dye your hair blonde, and go on a mission with The Girls to destroy your ex! This week, Vanessa is presenting “Tis the Season for Revenge” by Morgan Elizabeth! When Abigail gets dumped by her lawyer boyfriend she realizes the only way to get even is to get under his boss Damien! This book is cute, fluffy and dirty…
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Join The Girls as they get whisked away by lizard people in the night! This week we have our first alien smut from Vanessa with “Choosing Theo” by Victoria Aveline. Jade is taken to a distant planet where it’s the law to choose a husband. Thankfully for Jade, Theo graduated with honors from Husband School! This book has everything! There’s pointy e…
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Come join The Girls for a double serving Thanksgiving-themed episode! Just like the holidays, this is a very chaotic experience. You won’t be the same after today! Our first dish comes from Barbara and it is Stuffed by The Were-Turkey by Tate McKirk. In this 13-page erotica there isn’t a lot of pearls being clutched, but we are holding back a gag! …
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