title: Skin Deep
author: Ellora's Cave
description: Meet three heroes who know that beauty really is just skin deep....and love and lust await anyone willing to scratch the surface.
  
  Bedroom Eyes by Desiree Holt
  Bridget Reilly has lived her entire life using dark glasses to hide her deformed eyelids. But she also hides her real self, working a dead-end job and locking herself away from any social life. In secret she lusts for her next-door neighbor, Navy SEAL Clay Randall, a lust unexpectedly fed during an electrical blackout. When a masked ball provides the opportunity for her to have an entire night of glorious, unrestrained, erotic sex with Clay, how can she ignore it? The night more than exceeds all her expectations and now she wants to find a way to have a real relationship with him, without the mask. She applies to the Durban Trust, a fund set up by a former movie star to provide plastic surgery, and the surgery is successful. But what she hadn't counted on was Clay's reaction when she revealed all to him -- and the wedge it would drive between them.
  
  Strangers No More by Lynne Connolly
  Strangers in the dark, meeting for anonymous, hot and dirty sex. That was the way it was meant to be. But Whitney is increasingly drawn to her Stranger, more than she should be. Even if once he sees her face, he'll run screaming. Then Whitney receives an offer from the Durban Trust for cosmetic surgery. Although she knows looks don't matter, they've cost her too many promotions. She has to change her face to change her life. Her colleague Jay -- reporter and thriller writer -- has a secret to match Whitney's. He's her Stranger. He doesn't give a damn about her face, but how does he tell her? Now Jay has two secrets. He put her forward for the surgery. Once he tells her, she'll kick him out of her life, but he has to take that chance. He only wants her to get the job. Because she already has him. Hook, line and sinker.
  
  Bedhead by Shoshanna Evers
  Michele Peterson is young, pretty, healthy…and bald. Being a woman with alopecia isn't easy -- not only do strangers treat her as if she's a cancer patient, but hiding her bald head under a wig is hard on her sex life. Michele can't shower with a lover or feel his hands tangled in her hair in the throes of passion. So at the age of twenty-six, she remains a virgin. Then a generous benefactor agrees to finance hair transplant surgery. Just in time too, because Michele thinks she's met The One. Andrew Calhoun doesn't understand why the incredible woman he's falling for is so distant -- pulling away just as he thinks they're making a connection. When he discovers her secret, he'll have to make her realize that bald really is beautiful -- before she goes through a potentially dangerous cosmetic surgery just for his sake. And the best way to make her feel desirable…is in bed.