The Dirty Version, Turner Gable Kahn
The Dirty Version, Turner Gable Kahn
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The Dirty Version
A Novel

Author: Turner Gable Kahn

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2025


Synopsis

Named a Best Book of the Year by Library JournalShortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Debut Romantic Novel of the Year Award"This is a super smart take on the genre that even non romance girlies will enjoy." —Red MagazineHeat rises and sparks fly when a surf-town author and an intimacy coordinator are thrown together to write new, steamy sex scenes for a TV series based on her hit novel in this deliciously fun debut romance.Tash was thrilled when the dramatic rights to her surprise-hit feminist novel were snapped up by an indie film studio. But no one warned her that a Hollywood shuffle could land her smart, literary epic in the hands of a huge action-movie franchise director more famous for his machismo than his artistry.And now this big shot director wants “the dirty version” of her book, demanding Tash transform the strong, complex female warriors she created into eye candy. Despite her best efforts to stall, the studio assigns Tash to its golden-boy intimacy coordinator to help her add spice to the script. Tash resents Caleb from the first word of the first sentence they write together, certain he's the enemy and too handsome to be trusted. But the longer they collaborate on her characters, the more she's attracted to his firm grasp of emotional (and fine, physical) nudity. Soon they're burning up the bedsheets along with their new pages, blurring romantic storylines.But just when Tash feels it’s all coming together, the whole plot falls apart. Can she find a narrative that saves her show and her own love story, or are both lost forever?

About Turner Gable Kahn

Turner Gable Kahn grew up in the extra-hold-hairspray ribbon of sunshine between the Everglades and the Atlantic’s best beach. Her higher education took place along the banks of the Schuylkill, and then the Hudson. She commuted endlessly across the East River in the blood, sweat and tears of a design career, before leaving her heart on Victoria Harbor’s dance floors and the South China Sea’s cliff hikes. She now writes in the bright heat near the Singapore Strait during the school year; in the summer she greets the sunset with her family, on a back deck overlooking the Puget Sound.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 15, 2025

Loved this debut rom com, it needs more attention! Main character Tash wrote a feminist dystopian novel which was an unexpected hit, and now it’s being made into a tv series. Too bad the producer is not her style, and he has insisted she add more sex to the scripts. Enter Caleb, part of an intimacy......more

Goodreads review by Lina on July 05, 2025

3.25 / 5 Stars I struggled with how to rate this book because there were a lot of great parts and then a few parts that just weren’t for me. But read on, because maybe this book is for you and might make you feel incredibly seen! Quick plot synopsis: Tash has written a feminist, dystopian, girl warri......more

Goodreads review by Keri on July 07, 2025

Tash’s feminist dystopian novel has been picked up by a studio, which most authors would be thrilled about, but in this case the indie studio that originally picked it up no longer exists and a new large studio now is making the series. Unfortunately Tash feels that her strong feminist vision of the......more

Goodreads review by Heather on July 14, 2025

I enjoyed The Dirty Version by @turnergablekahn so much that I read it in one sitting! Thank you, Partner @bibliolifestyle @harperperennial . I’m always impressed when an author creates another “book” in the story that I also want to read! I would read the fictional book The Colony in an instant. This......more

Goodreads review by Ritu on June 21, 2025

Reading the blurb after the title pulled me in and made me eager to read this book. Now, was it worth it? We have Tash, an author whose first novel, a female-centric dystopian piece, has reached the level of fandom that it is being commissioned for adaptation as a TV series. Only the producer wants i......more