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.
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!! **
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.
GUEST POST
Hello, thank you for having me here for a little author interview.
Readers, I hope you enjoy learning more about me and my books! Stick
around, and let’s have a chat!
- Since romance stories depend on the appeal of their main characters, what will readers find most interesting about Jacey and Clayton?
When you write
romance, you are of course, writing and selling fantasy, so there’s
a certain element of fantasy, or of unattainable perfection in a lot
of romance. In my books, I always strive to really make my characters
real people, so in this series, my heroine Jacey Reynolds, is a
psychologist focusing on sex therapy, and she has this backstory of
kind of never feeling like she’s good enough, and also of being
rebellious. She clashes with some people, particularly her
mom/parents, and really pushes back against this idea of being a
submissive. She’s so fiercely independent, but realizes that
submitting to Clayton is about embracing her freedom and her choices.
She’s not submitting to him because he says she has to. She’s
submitting to him because she wants to. And that kind of
dichotomy about being so independent and on top of her game and
loving her life, but also finding that she can and will submit to
this man, because she trusts him, makes her super interesting.
- Every book requires research, even the sexy ones. What’s the coolest thing you learned, whether or not the detail made it into the final version of the novel?
Well, I love
setting books in places that I’ve been, so I really love traveling,
and while I don’t do it as much as I used to, in my early twenties
I lived in France, and traveled around Europe. I’ve also traveled
to a bunch of different states. So I’m always using some small
details of those travels in my books. The K Club Dark Side series,
and The K Club series are set in Nevada/Arizona. So, one of the
coolest things I did for this book was actually go to Las Vegas. Now,
it’s been a few years, and I didn’t initially go out there to
research a book, but I’m so glad to have been in the city and the
surrounding areas so that I could bring that to life in this book. I
created the town of Spartan NV for my K Club Series initially, and
while the spinoff Dark Side series takes place mostly in Laughlin NV
and Bullhead City AZ, there are scenes up in the fictional town of
Spartan, and also scenes in Las Vegas.
- Would you prefer a romantic and/or sexy getaway in Paris or Las Vegas? Why?
Paris. No
question. I love France, and Paris will always have a huge place in
my heart. I love Vegas, don’t get me wrong, but Paris was the place
I’d wanted to visit since I was like 10 years old, and when I was
20 and finally got there, it was like the most amazing thing in the
world. I’d love to have a second honeymoon in Paris.
- Do you have any suggestions for writers looking to balance the romance and eroticism in their novels?
Hah! Balance?
The hotter the better in my book (and in my books, in fact). I end up
writing a lot of sex scenes in my books. In fact, the first drafts
are usually dialogue, fight scenes and sex, with little descriptions
of setting or secondary characters or anything like that. Because I
write romance, though, I always know that there will be an emotional
component to every sex scene. Sometimes the romance/emotional aspects
get layered in afterward, but I always use the eroticism to drive the
romance forward. They’re intricately entwined in everything I
write. So, I guess that’s my advice to writers writing erotic or
steamy romance: to not have sex just for the sake of sex, but to use
it as a plot device to drive the plot forward. It can help the
characters get closer together, but it should also highlight the
extreme conflicts in the book. I think that there is actually more
sex in these books than in some of my others, because portraying a
real D/s relationship revolved so much around sex, and the trust
built during a scene, that it was a vital component to these books.
- Do you have any future plans for The K Club & The K Club Dark Side series?
Oh, yes, tons
in fact. The K Club series started with To Sir, which was
originally released in 2015, and was re-released as an independent
book when the publisher for it closed in 2018. I also wrote an intro
short story to the series called Blooming for Sir which was
part of the Love in Bloom anthology that I did with a group of
authors to help raise money for breast cancer research. The ABCs
of Submission books (Awakening Submission, Bound by
Submission, Craving Submission) are set in the same world as The
K Club books, but they’re different. They’re darker and more
erotica than strictly erotic romance, so I have kind of made them a
spinoff, with the series title of The K Club Dark Side, to
show that they’re in the same world, but to help separate them a
little bit. I currently have plans for at least 2 more K Club
novels, From Sir, With Love, and Between Sirs, and I
think I’ll do another couple of books in the Dark Side, maybe with
subtitles The ABCs of Domination. I’m thinking I’ll write Dani’s
story for those.
- And finally, leave us with an excerpt from Awakening Submission to show readers why they should check it out!
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.
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