Binding Ties

Bound by design: "Jenn crafts custom slave jewelry, but she's vowed never to wear a collar again. When she meets Scott, an architect with a dominant side, she's forced to confront her submissive needs." Maison Domine: "Organic chemist Lara Brunner is at loose ends. Since childhood, her life has been focused on work and achieving success in her field. Only now, weeks away from her tenure review, she realizes she's pushed herself too far. Casting about for a way to release her stress-crazed body from career tension, she visits a BDSM retreat, hoping a weekend of sexual submission will do the trick. Inducting her into the lifestyle is her at-work nemesis--Jaxon Greene. But the sinful intent she encounters in Jaxon's sexy eyes makes her heart race with desire ... and fear. Gorgeous men like him don't go for zaftig academics like her. Once the fantasy weekend is over and real life returns, he'll forget all about her. Jaxon is blindsided by his intense attraction to Lara. The more time he spends with her, the stronger their invisible bonds become. Bonds that are stronger and more permanent than any knot he can tie. He's not normally into converting vanilla women to his lifestyle, but something makes him want to cast his inhibitions aside and claim her for his own. First, though, he has to free her from preconceived notions of proper sex ... and love." Initiation of Isabella: "Isabella Tallin, a brand-spanking new Sigma Iomega Nu sorority pledge, thought she was waiting at the corner of Elm and Main for her initiation rite to begin. She knows these things are notoriously secret affairs, but surely the initiation doesn't involve a gorgeous guy in a hot red convertible and being bound, gagged, and blindfolded ... does it? Only one way to find out ..."