Limbs by Tim Meyer

 I am not a monster.

Ray Bridges, a professional electronics salesman, is looking for love in all the strange places. He spends most nights sneaking into support group meetings for the disabled in order to satisfy his deepest, darkest desires—to hook up with unfortunate, down-on-their-luck women who’ve recently lost a limb. There's a name for Ray’s preference; it’s called acrotomophilia, a paraphilia involving amputees.

Conflicted, Ray wishes he could change. But he can’t. His body won’t let him. Nor will his mind. He’s destined to live this life, forever. That is . . . until he meets the perfect girl. Falls in love with her. Only problem: her arms and legs are attached.

Unable to find her attractive, Ray embarks on a dark, twisted journey of self-discovery, one that will force him to make an impossible choice: abandon his pursuit of true love or find a way to make it work, even if that means getting the girl of his dreams to shed an appendage.

Ray has never told anyone about his weird kink (or is it a fetish?) of only being attracted to amputees, or the sleazy way he goes about finding women to satisfy his odd desires. After his best friend and co worker tells him about the Hacketstown Hacker, the name given to an unknown perpetrator of brutal assaults on women, he discovers his latest conquest was a victim, and he considers finding the hacker, not to bring him to justice but to have him hack a limb off the new girl at work who he has fallen for. Kayla feels the same way about Ray, but would she accept the truth about him? Can Ray find a way to overlook that she's not missing any body parts or will it take the Hacker to help them live happily ever after?

The cover describes this novella as weird, comedic, and raunchy.  I would tend to agree. I'd also like to add suspenseful, entertaining, well written, and downright crazy. If you normally stay away from conventional romance you may delight in this kooky love story.

4 out of 5 stars

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About the author

Tim Meyer dwells in a dark cave near the Jersey Shore. He's an author, husband, father, podcast host, blogger, coffee connoisseur, beer enthusiast, and explorer of worlds. He writes horror, mysteries, science fiction, and thrillers, although he prefers to blur genres and let the story fall where it may.

You can follow Tim at https://timmeyerwrites.com