Awakening
Submission
The
K Club Dark Side Book 1
by
Rachell Nichole
Genre:
Dark Erotic Romance
I
am not a submissive. Nuh uh, no way. As a relationship therapist, I
understand the appeal of kink, I really do, but it was never for me.
Until him.
Sir
Clayton Schultz, PhD strode into my life unannounced and with the air
of arrogance that only a Dom like him could have.
A
chance meeting at a kinky conference where I’m teaching a workshop
on the psychology of relationships, leads to one hell of a night. But
Sir has rules to follow.
We’re
intent on having a little fun at the conference and going our
separate ways, but when we get home, and realize we don’t live far
from one another, we make it all of a week before we’re together in
his bed.
But
I’m not sure if I can do this whole submissive thing full-time, or
how to reconcile being a strong, independent feminist, and Sir
Clayton’s submissive.
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Right, I’m supposed to be the one in command here. “So, I’ll introduce myself to you a bit, and then I’ll take you through some of the basics of psychology behind sex and relationships, and we’ll have a Q&A session after. My name is Dr. Jacey Reynolds. I am a psychologist first, and a sex therapist second. I got my PhD from Berkley with a focus on child psychology actually. During my first few rotations and jobs at hospitals and private practices, I realized that helping kids and adolescents was great, but I just couldn’t stand it when I lost a patient. It happened too often, so I changed direction and started focusing on relationship therapy.
“Couples counseling, mostly. And from there, I realized just how large of a component sex was to that, and it wasn’t long after that when I decided to strictly pursue sex therapy. I studied with some of the greatest therapists and opened my own practice. I now work with couples, and individual patients to find their most successful and fulfilling sexual relationships, and how to use sex as a means to build from. Some patients come to me already in a rocky relationship. The sex is suffering considerably, because their communication both in the bedroom, and outside of it, is a challenge.” As I’m speaking, I can see a few folks jotting notes. Then the door at the back of the room opens and a man strides in. He realizes the room is silent, and I’m staring at him. Damn it, what the fuck was I saying?
He’s tall, with dark hair and broad shoulders. A couple of heads turn, but he ignores the stares. He strides through the room like he owns it and takes a seat toward the front of the room, off to the side. It’s one of the only empty chairs left.
“By all means, please continue.” His voice is indulgent. As if I had to wait for him to join us before I can speak again. The nerve.
I roll my eyes, and he grins at me. A frisson of awareness runs through me. His gaze is predatory. Fuck. I recognize this instant attraction inside myself.
“So, sex.” I clear my throat and force myself to tear my gaze from his. I am not going to let the warmth spreading through me stop me from presenting to the group. I force myself out from behind the podium, taking the microphone with me from the stand. I start walking across the small open space in the front of the room. “I know that many of you are writers. Some of you are also readers. Since of course this is a Kinky Con, that means that what a lot of you are
writing and reading is about sex, particularly of the kinky variety. Today, I want to go through some of the ins and outs of what happens when we have sex, physiologically and psychologically. And to talk about how communication between partners can affect the sex. Now, there’s nothing wrong with two consenting adults who aren’t in a relationship having sex. But even in that iteration, there has to be some kind of communication.”
I wouldn’t mind testing that theory with Mr. Dark and Broody in the second row. He’s staring at me; not taking notes, not paying anything around us any mind. Even when I’m not looking at him, I can feel his stare along my skin. It’s like someone has taken the edge of a feather and continuously run it all over my body from head to toe. I shiver. I’m covered in goosebumps.
My gaze is drawn back to his.
What would it be like to be alone in the room with him? He’s already making me so hot and bothered I can barely focus on speaking, and we’re in a room full of people.
I swallow hard. “So, when you’re writing a couple who are getting all hot and heavy, you want to work on building them as real people. Real people, even when they’re just hooking up, have feelings. They may not want to acknowledge those feelings, and sex and love can be two very separate and different things, but the feelings of a human when they have a sexual relationship with someone are real. They’re varied, too. Having sex fills a physiological need. But it also fills a very psychological need. People need people. We need connections with others. That’s part of being human. The thing you want to work out when you’re writing these characters is what needs are being filled by sex. What needs are not being fulfilled by sex.” I am talking directly to Mr. Tall Dark and Sexy. I know I am. I’m sure the rest of the room can tell too. But I can’t help it. I want him. I can feel it deep inside myself. The room is quiet, listening intently to my spiel. I pop up the slideshow presentation with the different aspects of sex that I want to explore with him today. Them, damn it. Tall Dark and Broody is taking over my thoughts. I need a fan. My body is overheating.
Bound
by Submission
The
K Club Dark Side Book 2
In
our world, No and Red are two very different words.
It
doesn’t matter that I’ve decided I’m done being his submissive.
I know something is broken between us and I can’t seem to fix it.
So, I am intent on no longer being his. But my insistence that I
don’t want him is futile, and we both know it. Until and unless a
safeword comes out of my mouth, Sir will show me no mercy.
When
he asks me to move in with him, I have never felt more secure. But
co-habitation brings its own set of issues, and as we navigate the
new stage of our relationship, things get complicated.
And
when Sir’s first submissive suddenly comes back into his life, and
she reveals parts of his past he hasn’t shared with me, I’m not
sure what else he’s been hiding. When I discover his secrets, and
the accusations against him start flying, I fear I’ve made a
terrible mistake.
Craving
Submission
The
K Club Dark Side Book 3
My
Sir has been charged with murder.
I
can do nothing except fight this battle by his side, even though I
now know he’s been hiding secrets from me. When I’m confronted
with his past first-hand, I have to find a way to fight not just for
his freedom, but for our lives.
**Coming
Soon!! **
Thanks for having me here for this interview! I can’t wait to let readers get to know a bit more about me and my books.
-What book and/or experience made you want to be a writer?
I’ve been storytelling since I could type. I’m not sure if it was because I was such an avid reader as a kid, or if it was the insomnia and ease of access to a computer during the summer, or some combination thereof, but I do know that when I was ten or eleven and showing my parents my stories, they sat me down to talk about plagiarism, because I was crafting stories well beyond my age, which of course made me pleased as punch. As for why I write romance, that’s a little easier to place. When I was 16, my mom handed me my first paranormal romance. I’d read adult literature and YA (though it wasn’t nearly as popular then) and all kinds of other genres. But never an adult romance. It was Dark Desire by Christine Feehan, one of her Carpathian novels. And I was hooked. I started writing a paranormal romance novel two years later.
-What genre(s) do you write?
Man, I’ve written just about anything by now, flash fiction, poetry and experimental pieces that use multimedia and pictures, and quite a bit of creative non-fiction. As for noveling, I write paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and contemporary erotic romance. Mostly I’ve just published the contemporary erotic stuff. I’m still occasionally writing the paranormal or romantic suspense, but most of my focus is on contemporary erotic.
-For other aspiring writers, any tips?
This one’s easy – write!!! Never give up and never stop writing (or reading). If I had stopped the first time my parents thought I was taking other people’s stuff and putting my name on it, or the first time I got a rejection, or the first time I got a C on a writing assignment, or every time I was torn to shreds by professors and peers who knew I had better in me, I wouldn’t be here today. I wouldn’t be loving what I do and crafting stories to share with you all.
-What’s your favorite book/genre to read?
I adore romance novels of most subgenres. I will always have a special place for paranormal, since it was my first introduction to romance. But I also love historical, steam punk, erotic romance, and romantic suspense. I will say that my least favorite is behind closed doors (or what most people call “sweet”) contemporary romance. There’s usually not enough going on in those to keep me on the edge of my seat. The other subgenres have so much else going on around the romance plot and in the amazing ones, this external action is driving the romance and vice versa. It’s incredible to read.
-What’s your favorite thing you’ve ever written? (Book, short story, scene, etc.)
That’s such a good question, and a really hard one to answer. I’ve taken creative writing classes since fifth grade, so I have amassed an incredible amount of writing. I have a piece of creative nonfiction that I wrote, off-the-cuff, in a course. We had a writing prompt about “getting lost” and we were in a computer lab writing the piece and posting them for the class to read real-time. I was the first done, with almost 1000 words in 30 minutes, my professor read it as we were sitting there, and laughed. I mean deep belly laughed, and told me it was the best thing I’d ever written in his classes. I’ve written some great novels (yes, I know I’m biased) but there’s just something about the totally spontaneous off-the-cuff creative nonfiction I’ve written in the past that I will always always love!
Here’s a tiny snippet from that piece:
I really hate getting lost. It kind of sucks, a lot. It makes me frustrated and annoyed and I just can’t stand it. I used to call my mother while driving (without my earpiece) and then we’d growl back and forth at each other. Where are you? I don’t know, if I knew that, I wouldn’t be calling you. Well I can’t help you get where you need to be until I know where you are. Okay, the corner of Townsend and Salina. Ok going which way? Uh, I dunno. RAAAACCCHHHHHH. MOOOOOOM. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. (And yes, that was a blatant King & I reference).
-Upcoming publication(s)?
My K Club Dark Side series has three books coming out in rapid release, Awakening Submission just released on 4/29/19, Bound by Submission is out 5/23/19, and Craving Submission will be out in June.
Rachell
Nichole is a contemporary steamy romance author, who loves writing
sassy sizzling romances about memorable characters who have to fight
to hold on to love.
Rachell is the author
of more than a dozen romances. In addition to writing, Rachell loves
travel, teaching, and foreign languages. She holds BAs in
Professional Writing and French, along with an MFA in Writing Popular
Fiction from Seton Hill University.
Rachell lives in
Pennsylvania with a mountain of books and the love of her life.
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No questions. The cover is interesting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Mary. I love the covers for this series. I just think they're so pretty.
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