text: An Ohio couple have filed a major lawsuit against the risque erotic e-book 'A Gronking To Remember', claiming a photo as they were celebrating their engagement was used as the online cover without their permission. The unnamed couple are subsequently suing the novella's author, who released it under the pen name Lacey Noonan, as well as distributors Apple, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble for allowing readers to buy the work in iBooks, Kindle and Nook digital formats. The fan fiction, which is $2.51 on Kindle, is about a housewife's infatuation with New England Patriots tight end Rob 'Gronk' Gronkowski, who she habitually masturbates over while watching his games. It enjoyed some viral success following its release, which coincided with the Superbowl. Scroll down for video . 'Appropriated image': The couple featured on the cover of A Gronking To Remember, a work of fan fiction about a woman's sexual infatuation with Patriots player Rob 'Gronk' Gronkowski, say the photo of them that appears was used without their permission or without them even knowing . 'Ridicule': The book has been shown as a source of ribald humor on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live, the lawsuit claims . Gronkowski even read out some of the cringeworthy lines during the Patriots press tour, including during an appearance of Jimmy Kimmel Live. One such line is: 'Spike me, Daniel, through the goalposts of life.' Another part reads: 'I’ll never forget the first time I saw Gronk spike a football. The unrivaled power of his touchdown dance: ‘The Gronk.’ It jettisoned jiggling ribbons of electric jelly through my body and melted my knees like two pads of margarine.' However the lawsuit slams the book is distasteful and 'offensive'. 'The use of the plaintiffs' image has held them up to ridicule and embarrassment,' the lawsuit said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 'This outrageous connection has been further aggravated when the book with the plaintiffs' image has been reproduced in the media nationwide. 'The book has been shown as a source of ribald humor on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live as well as being displayed and read before the press at media day for the Super Bowl.' Source of infatuation: Rob Gronkowski answers questions from reports on April 23 during a visit to the White House after the New Englad Patriots won the Superbowl . The book was self-published by the pseudonymous Noonan, meaning she is likely the one who chose the image for the cover. It is unclear how she came to find the photo in the first place however. A new cover has now started to appear online featuring a different couple. The couple is asking the court to award “any profits derived from and attributable to” the unauthorized use, or $10,000, compensatory damages of $25,000, attorneys fees, court costs, expenses and treble damages, The Boston Globe reported. The case has been transferred to federal court in Ohio.
target: Ohio couple suing author Lacey Noonan as well as Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble .
  Claim personal photo of them on the book's cover was appropriated without permission and without them knowing .
  Say the book has caused them to be ridiculed and humilaited .
  The fan fiction is about a woman's sexual infatuation with New England Patriots tight end Rob 'Gronk' Gronkowski .