Chapter 347

We started calling it Hollywood & Vine. Jess wanted Hollywood in the title, since that was her target audience for membership. And Kat had suggested "vine" because that’s what Tarzan swang from.

"And you want people who are going to be a little bit untamed when they come to a swingers club," she had said.

The name stuck.

Our two new house purchases needed a bit of work to make them suitable for our purposes. The girls jumped right on that. Juliet, chiming in from on-set, had recommended a handful of very skilled individuals who built out sets for one of the major studios. If we were willing to pay cash -- and we were -- we could get high-quality work done quickly.

To start, we knocked down the fence between the houses and secured the double perimeter with a ten-foot privacy wall. Inside each house, the first-floor plans were opened up. There were large bars, professional kitchens, and a series of thoughtful, surprise touches that repre