The View didn’t search too far for its first guest on this morning’s episode, which found Sunny Hostin in the interview seat as she promoted her new novel Summer on Highland Beach.

Like its predecessors, Summer on Highland Beach — which is the third book in Hostin’s Summer Beach series — includes its fair share of steamy chapters. Don’t believe us? Earlier this month, Joy Behar was left mortified after her co-hosts forced her to read one of the “sexy” passages from Hostin’s new book.

“Desire hit her hard and fast. She was burning up, sparked by fire, lit by joy — really? — he’d forgotten how delicious spearmint tasted on her lips,” she read on the May 9 episode of The View, before reluctantly adding, “She finally honored his demand, cupped his ass and guided him … inside.”

Hostin further teased the NSFW scenes on this morning’s episode of The View, where she explained, “There’s the usual love story, family love, the love of place, sanctuary and a little bit of smut on the side.”

Behar admitted that she was “still traumatized” from when Hostin made her read the “racy” passage, though she still had a burning question leftover from that fateful segment.

“We got in trouble with that. And I’m not gonna do it again. But you’re welcome for the advance sales you got,” she joked. “The smut in the book — we’ll call it smut. It’s just sex, right? If you’re doing it right it’s smut. The sexy parts in the book, did you write that out of personal experience?”

However, Hostin quickly shut down the notion that she was drawing from personal experience, revealing that she enlisted the help of other writers to help her flesh out those chapters.

“I have a writer’s room of men and women and we write them together because I’m a repressed Catholic and I just can’t write them,” she said. “I have all these sexual experiences — who knew my friends were this sexy? We get together, men and women, and we’re looking at it through a female gaze but they helped me write the book.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.