Sly
Nicole is not my type. No ink or piercings on her perfectly curvy frame. That's exactly why I tapped her profile.
My friends talked me into using The HookApp. Convinced I needed one night with another woman to get over my ex. I've been enjoying the single life, so I chose Nicole because I didn't think I had a chance in hell with her. Imagine my surprise when she tapped me back.

And again, when I sit down to have dinner with her, and she makes it clear we're not having sex tonight, I'm convinced she's playing a sick joke, but it's Nicole who's been played. Her best friend thought Nicole needed to loosen up. Started a profile for her on The HookApp to set Nicole up on blind dates. I'm just her latest victim.

Neither of us wants to be here. Now, I have the out I wanted. Will I take it, or will I take this opportunity to have more than a hookup with a perfect woman who shouldn't want a tatted-up, lumberjack-looking guy like me?

Layne

Rhett isn’t the most common name, but what are the odds the hulking, tatted, bearded man who tapped me on The HookApp is the same Rhett I hated in middle school?

He pulled my hair and ruined my chances with every other boy in school with the lies he told about me.

There was no love between us back then. If this is the same Rhett, living in the same small town with me ten years later, I shouldn't tap him back.

But I can't resist. Not just his muscular tatted arms and bearded jaw, but the chance to rile him up. Make him pull my hair for a different reason.

When I find out why he was so mean to me when we were kids, will it prove that we should keep our distance, or can I find it in my heart to forgive him and prove to him that love is what we make of it?

CW/TW: Discussions of childhood trauma and abuse.

DEX
Her name is Nell. She's six years older than me and a single mom. Even though The HookApp brought us together, only the matchmaking photographer that found our profiles and thought we'd be perfect for each other knows what we look like.

I'm not ashamed of my scars, but I've yet to meet a single woman who could look past them. The entire reason my HookApp has sat untapped .

When Nell takes off her blindfold, will she regret agreeing to the boudoir-style stranger session photo shoot? Will she reject me like the others, or will a mother's love let her see the man beneath the scars?