Book excerpt: It is October, 2005. In an apartment in the upmarket neighbourhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-year-old Bruna Surfistinha, or Bruna the Surfer Girl, has sexual encounters with up to five men a day. A teen runaway who has had to turn tricks for a living, Bruna begins to write about her experiences in a blog. What she creates is a scintillating soap opera, loaded with family drama, love stories and, of course, sex! Today, Bruna has become a celebrity in Brazil with the runaway bestseller The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl. Selling over 30,000 copies in its first month, (and over 100,000 copies to date) the book is a vivid, forthright, explosive account of sex for money, for kicks, for fun, and for love. It even offers how-to tips for readers looking to spice up their sex lives. In the tradition of the bestselling The Bride Stripped Bare, In My Skin, Belle de Jour and Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, this translation of The Scorpion's Sweet Venom is destined to cause a stir with its intimate revelations of Latino lovers and illicit sex and life as a call girl.