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Two Lesfic Bard Awards In The Same Year
The Awakening of Desire Series
May I Call You Mistress?
Book one, Lesfic Bard Novella 2022 winner
She was my sister's piano teacher and my forbidden fantasy. Seventeen years later, I'll do anything to call her "Mistress."
Photographer Abby Mason takes a last-minute job shooting product photos for an adult website. What she does not expect is to walk into the studio and find Victoria Fraser on the other side of her lens. No longer the mysterious piano teacher who defined every fantasy Abby never quite grew out of. Now the confident, controlled owner of a thriving adult brand. Now Abby's new client. What starts as a strictly professional shoot becomes a slow, carefully negotiated descent into a power exchange that Abby has been waiting half her life to ask for.
Tropes: BDSM, dominant woman, power exchange, age gap, forbidden attraction, photographer protagonist, psychological tension, slow burn erotic, contemporary.
Seconds Out
Book two
Some mistresses understand power. Others only understand control. And one will stop at nothing to reclaim what she lost.
Victoria never planned to build a polyamorous relationship with her submissive Abby and her former lover Alison. But as the three of them deepen their dynamic and old wounds begin to heal, something rare starts to take shape between them. Then Mhairi returns. Alison's abusive ex-mistress, back from Thailand with dangerous allies and a ruthless need to reclaim what was hers. Victoria must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the women who have trusted her with their hearts.
Tropes: BDSM, polyamory, dominant woman, power exchange, age gap, dark romance, dangerous antagonist, chosen family, slow burn erotic, contemporary.
On The Ropes
Book three, Lesfic Bard Novel 2022 winner
Her therapist is off limits. Her mistress is her world. Her heart is anyone's guess.
Alison is rebuilding her life after an abusive past, exploring consensual BDSM and polyamory with dominant Victoria and devoted Abby. Then her connection with Olivia, the therapist meant to remain strictly professional, begins to blur the line between trust, desire, and something dangerously real. When her ex-domme returns bent on control, the fragile balance of their chosen family is pushed to breaking point. The book that took the Lesfic Bard Novel of the Year, and the book most readers point to when they tell me the series stopped feeling like erotica and started feeling like home.
Tropes: BDSM, polyamory, age gap, forbidden attraction, therapist-patient tension, healing arc, dangerous antagonist, chosen family, slow burn erotic, contemporary.
Commitment to Desire
Book four
She was half my age, twice as dominant, and completely off limits, but I had to have her.
Victoria and Abby's castle wedding is days away and everything is falling apart. Best Woman Bo McKinnon steps in to fix the chaos and walks straight into Destinee. The brilliant young chef with a guarded past, half Bo's age, twice as dominant, and the power dynamic Bo absolutely did not expect to find herself on the receiving end of. The wedding-week book with the sharpest wit in the series and the most subversive age-gap power flip in the catalogue.
Tropes: BDSM, age gap with younger dominant, dominant woman, wedding setting, opposites attract, forbidden attraction, slow burn erotic, secrets, contemporary.
Desire's Truth
Book five
She sold her business to a billionaire dominatrix for £75 million. The price? One night as her submissive.
Victoria has built her life on control, winning in both the boardroom and the bedroom. Then Suzette Conner-Wakeman walks in with an offer impossible to ignore. Seventy-five million pounds for her companies, conditional on one night of Victoria's total submission. With her wife Abby's surprising encouragement, Victoria agrees. What begins as a carefully negotiated encounter becomes a revelation that exposes truths Victoria has kept buried for years, and tests the marriage at the centre of everything.
This is also the book where readers meet Suzette Conner-Wakeman for the first time. She now has her own thriller series.
Tropes: BDSM, billionaire dominatrix, submission as condition, marriage tested, jealousy and devotion, polyamory, slow burn erotic, high stakes, contemporary.
Surrender to Desire
Book six
She violated every rule of therapy to save her patient. And herself. But at what cost?
Therapist Olivia is losing the battle against her feelings for Alison, the woman who came to her in pieces and is now learning how to rebuild. What begins as professional care becomes something neither of them was meant to ask for. As their relationship moves from the counselling room into carefully negotiated intimacy, the power dynamic shifts in a way neither of them expected. Olivia must learn to surrender control, and Alison discovers the strength of her own dominance.
Tropes: BDSM, therapist-patient, forbidden attraction, power flip, surrendering control, chosen family, Christmas setting, slow burn erotic, contemporary.
Save With The Awakening of Desire Bundle
If you have read book one of this series, you already know you are not going to stop at book one.
The Awakening of Desire bundle is for that reader. The reader who closes May I Call You Mistress somewhere after midnight and finds herself thinking about Victoria's hands for longer than is strictly comfortable. Six books in one purchase, set across Edinburgh's elegant façade and the Scottish landscape the series quietly turns into its own erotic country. Inside Victoria Fraser's Crimson Sanctuary, dominance and submission become paths to liberation and the circle of women around her gets wider and more dangerous with every book.
Also available in Audiobook
The Awakening of Desire was written to be heard.
Every book in the series is available on audio, and the narration carries the negotiation between two women and the breath in the right places the way the page can only suggest. The series is some of the most-listened-to sapphic erotic on the major platforms, and the letters I get about how the books actually felt to consume mostly come from the audio listeners. There is something about a dominant woman issuing a command in your headphones at midnight that the printed word, for all its quiet, cannot match.
The series is also available as multi-format bundles.