January - March 2026: Self-Help Smut Club

Join us and LMFT Caitlin Harrison for a special bimonthly book club, Self-Help Smut Club!

Self-Help Smut Club is a therapeutic book club focusing on feeling instead of producing. Too often we get overwhelmed by attempts to optimize ourselves through self-help endeavors, when the ways that we can improve are through play! Playfulness allows for feeling, connecting with ourselves authentically, and stress relief. What better way to do that than by reading some fun smut? Led by a licensed MFT, this book club will explore different popular smut books in order to offer you an increased permission for pleasure, alongside a community of like-minded individuals.

This book club is open to all genders and sexual orientations, with each meeting featuring a different relationship orientation. This discussion group is for anyone age 18 and up and is free to attend, but space is limited and registration is highly encouraged as we do have limited capacity.

About Caitlin Harrison: Caitlin Harrison (she/her) is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who believes that joy is an act of resistance and coming home to yourself is a journey that requires being seen and celebrated. Her work as a therapist focuses around issues of religious trauma, sex, and perfectionism. Outside of work, she is a wife, mom, and friend who enjoys starting hobbies, going to the movies, and having a laugh.

Schedule:
Meeting 1: Sunday, January 25, 2026 from 1:00pm-2:30pm
Meeting 2: Sunday, March 22, 2026 from 1:00pm-2:30pm
Meeting 3: Sunday, May 24, 2026 from 1:00pm-2:30pm

Location: Black Cat Fables (415 S. Myrtle Avenue, Suite B, Monrovia, CA 91016)

Book Club Picks:
Meeting 1 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood 

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.

(cw: graphic sexual content, death, kidnapping, mild violence, poison)

Meeting 2 - Marriage & Masti by Nisha Sharma

The third and final installment in Nisha Sharma’s beloved Shakespeare-inspired rom-com trilogy—an ode to Twelfth Night—is the perfect friends to lovers romp featuring an accidental wedding, meddling families, and plenty of sizzling chemistry.

(cw: misogyny, toxic relationship, sexism, gaslighting, emotional abuse, cursing, alcohol, classism)

Meeting 3 - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

A big-hearted romantic comedy in which the First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends.

(cw: alcohol, addiction, anxiety, cancer, death, homophobia, panic attacks, racism, sexual abuse, explicit sexual content)