DEBUT NOVEL OUT SUMMER 2025
THE DIRTY VERSION
Surf-town college professor Tash Grover mixed tequila with a man-rant, unwittingly cooking up a breakthrough feminist dystopian novel and a film deal poised to move the book’s following from cult into the mainstream. When a Hollywood director famous for his testosterone-fueled car-chase explosions suddenly acquires the screen rights and demands Tash sexify the story’s scripts, she’s forced to collaborate on new, steamy scenes with Caleb Rafferty, the studio’s too-handsome intimacy coordinator. Despite her certainty he’s an agent of the patriarchy sent to pimp out her plot, Tash has to play nice with Caleb—even through their hot-yet-hostile, jump-off-the-page-into-bed chemistry—or risk ruining her beloved novel’s adaptation, betraying her fans, and losing the one man finally worth a closer read.
“Kahn's The Dirty Version is an of-the-moment, juicy conversation about power and the representation of female sexuality in entertainment and art. The character of Caleb captures the emerging roles Intimacy Coordinators play in today's Hollywood, and his chemistry with Tash hooked me from the first page. I loved their smart romp toward happily-ever-after!”
— Robbie Taylor Hunt, Intimacy Coordinator for film & TV projects including Amazon’s Red, White & Royal Blue, Netflix’s You, and BBC’s Everything I Know About Love
THE AUTHOR
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 happened 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.
