Crimson Surrender

Michael Denny has been the reliable one for as long as he can remember. The man who carries everything, fixes everything, feels nothing in public, and goes home to an apartment full of unpaid bills and a thesis he can't finish. He is twenty-four years old and already exhausted by the performance of being a man who has it together.Then he walks into Sashara Jones's office to interview her for a profile piece, and something happens that he has no name for — something that has been waiting inside him his whole life and has never, until this moment, had anywhere to go.Sashara is a self-made tech CEO at the height of her power, and she built every inch of it herself. She doesn't share control. She doesn't let people in. And she has been alone inside her own careful walls for so long she's stopped counting. But when Michael sits across her desk and his body answers her voice before his mind catches up, she sees something she has never seen in anyone: a man starving for the one thing no one has ever offered him.The freedom to stop carrying it alone.What begins as one night becomes a contract. What begins as power exchange becomes something neither of them planned for. As Michael learns to surrender under Sashara's hand — to let her hold the decisions, the structure, the control he has white-knuckled for a decade — she discovers that letting someone in is its own kind of surrender. And that the woman who built her empire on never needing anyone has never wanted anything more than she wants him.Crimson Surrender is an explicit, emotionally driven BDSM romance about two people who are both, in their own way, utterly exhausted by who they've had to be — and what they find when they finally stop performing. It is a story about shame and desire and the specific courage it takes to tell the truth about what you need. About the dominant who learns that control is also a wall. And about the submissive who discovers, kneeling on cold hardwood in a Seattle penthouse, that the strongest thing he has ever done is let himself be held.For readers of Penelope Douglas, Tillie Cole, and Cari Quinn — a BDSM romance with real emotional stakes, explicit heat, and a love story that earns every inch of its ending.