Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance

Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance
Author: Ardie Stallard
Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media
Total Pages: 147
Release: 1900
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1954079257

Twenty-one-year-old Felicia is a college student working part-time as a professional Dominatrix. She came to the profession on the advice of an older Dominatrix. As a dominant female, she hopes to come to terms with a traumatic and humiliating event from her past. At just eighteen, she consented to a disciplinary paddling from her school principal. The ensuing media attention resulted in her being almost totally ostracized by her peers. She still suffers from PSTD and feels she's missing out on something she may be afraid to admit, even to herself... that is until one warm spring evening, when she accepts an "outcall" from a posh hotel not far from her apartment, she meets a "client" of the sort she never expected. Turns out, he never expected a girl like her! Two dominants in the same room? While it’s a practical joke, as their evening progresses, Felicia discovers that not all males calling themselves Dominants are cut from the same cloth. He suggests possibilities she's been missing and an aspect of her personality she may never have quite accepted, until tonight…

The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass

The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass
Author: Elizabeth R. Epperly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802074614

Anne Shirley is the best known of a memorable group of heroines created by Lucy Maud Montgomery, a group that includes Emily Byrd Starr, Valancy Stirling, and Pat Gardiner. These characters are at the centre of Epperly's book, the first full-length critical study of all L.M. Montgomery's fiction. Epperly contends that Montgomery was a master of the romance genre, and through her use of literary allusions, repetitions, irony, and comic inversions she deftly manipulated the normal conventions of romance novels. By studying the fictional biographies of the heroines and their pursuit of romance, Epperly questions the ways romance shapes what we consider valuable in our imaginings and experience.

Chastise My Deceitful Lady

Chastise My Deceitful Lady
Author: Cherry Redde
Publisher: Pink Cherry Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2024-01-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Three complete, full-length Victorian historical novels. Three spunky young women determined to rise above the painful challenges of a strict society to find their happily ever after. To Have and To Chastise: A Victorian Marriage of Convenience Romance: When her wastrel Earl of a father gambles away her hand in marriage, the beautiful Lady Henrietta Fallon claims she's already secretly wed to the handsome vicar. To protect the lady's reputation, Alfred Conley backs up the story in public―but he exacts his price in private. Any wife of his must be subject to domestic discipline, and he does not tolerate lies. The Duke's Daughter's Devious Double: A Victorian Switched Identities Romance: Born on the wrong side of the blanket, Sally switches places with her half-sister to sneak her way into a rigorous finishing school meant only for highborn young ladies. New headmaster Gerard believes in the power of domestic discipline to transform spoiled duke's daughters into proper young wives. But, in Sally, he may have met his match. Deceit and Discipline: A Victorian Lady in Disguise Heist Novel: Dolly Hughes is a mistress of disguise. When she poses as a mere snip of a maid to find a rare diamond, she becomes subject to an isolated manor's strange domestic discipline practices. Warning: This third book is not a traditional romance, and some may consider the larcenous Dolly to be a bit of an anti-heroine, but you may expect her to triumph in the end.

A Billionaire Romance: A Free Montgomery Billionaire Short Story

A Billionaire Romance: A Free Montgomery Billionaire Short Story
Author: Michelle Love
Publisher: Blessings For All SC
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164808656X

Enjoy this FREE bad boy short stories by Best-selling billionaire romance author Michelle Love.... Danger oftentimes breeds desire, lust, and carnal pleasures—at least with us it did… A threat to our only child’s life put us into seclusion in an Arizona desert. Underground, supposedly safe, we found ourselves with nothing but time to kill. Our son, under constant guard, was well taken care of, leaving us alone. And when my wife and I were left alone, we always found ways to entertain ourselves. Doing everything we could to protect our young son rekindled our love. We’d been told that none of us would make it out alive. Could we prove them wrong?

Love on the Racks

Love on the Racks
Author: Michelle Nolan
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-03-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476604908

For the better part of three decades romance comics were an American institution. Nearly 6000 titles were published between 1947 and 1977, and for a time one in five comics sold in the U.S. was a romance comic. This first full-length study examines the several types of romance comics, their creators and publishing history. The author explores significant periods in the development of the genre, including the origins of Archie Comics and other teen publications, the romance comic "boom and bust" of the 1950s, and their sudden disappearance when fantasy and superhero comics began to dominate in the late 1970s.

Love, Inc.

Love, Inc.
Author: Laurie Essig
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520295013

The notion of “happily ever after” has been ingrained in many of us since childhood—meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need? Author Laurie Essig invites us to flip this concept of romance on its head and see it for what it really is—an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with the fact that we believe we cannot control or affect the societal, economic, and political structures around us. From climate change to nuclear war, white nationalism to the worship of wealth and conspicuous consumption—as the future becomes seemingly less secure, Americans turn away from the public sphere and find shelter in the private. Essig argues that when we do this, we allow romance to blind us to the real work that needs to be done—building global movements that inspire a change in government policies to address economic and social inequality.

The Alpha's Woman

The Alpha's Woman
Author: Carolyn Faulkner
Publisher: Blushing Publications
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612582133

She is nothing more to him than a means to obtain children. When she is released from the stasis she voluntarily entered, the world that greets Emily Harding is far from what she expected. It more closely resembles a post-apocalyptic novel than the rolling green Tennessee hills she’s left behind. Worse than that, it seems that the rule of law is a thing of the past, and that society has devolved into what it was thousands of years ago – feudal tribes warring with each other over precious and rare supplies, which includes females. One type of female in particular. It is raw, unforgiving, and animalistic. Much like the behavior of the man who takes her captive and holds her there, forcing her to learn that even she is not unaffected by the changes that have been wrought on the world, proving to her time and time again that she is nothing more to him than a means to obtain children. And making her scream in agonizing pleasure as he does so. Publisher’s Note: The Alpha's Woman is a dark tale with some explicit themes.

Outlander's Sassenachs

Outlander's Sassenachs
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2016-07-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476664242

A time travel epic featuring history and romance, Outlander--unlike most adventure series--is aimed at women audiences. The kilted male characters, the female narrator, the fantastic period costumes are atypical of male-gendered television. Both the show and the novels on which it is based address issues most series shy away from, like breast feeding, abortion and birth control. Role reversals are common--the powerful Claire rescues her virginal husband Jamie from sexual abuse. When the villainous Black Jack Randall displays his genitals to the heroine Jenny, she laughs. This collection of new essays examines Outlander as an exploration of what it means to be a capable 18th century woman and what it means in the modern world. As Claire explores different models of strength in both periods, Jamie comes to understand the nuances of male honor, power and alternative sexuality through the contrasting figures of Black Jack and Lord John. As the heroes negotiate the complications of marriage and life, they make discoveries about gender that resonate with modern audiences.