The Maison Chronicles Series by Skylar Kade

Taking bonding and exothermic reactions outside the laboratory… A Binding Ties story. 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... moreTaking bonding and exothermic reactions outside the laboratory… A Binding Ties story. 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. less

Maison Chronicles InterludeLara and Jaxon had their happily-ever-after, but now reality is sinking in. Something needs to change in their relationship, or their busy lives could tear them apart. Can another weekend at Maison Domine soothe the jagged edges of their love?

"This time, he s not giving her up without a fight. " After two grueling years caring for her terminally ill mother, Hope O Shea is eager to start fresh. Except her first interior-decorating job is for a popular BDSM club part of her kinky past she misses, but had to leave behind. Worse, she somehow ends up in the arms of her ex-Dom, Gabriel Cassidy. The one man who could strip her emotions bare, so bare that rather than reveal her painful history, she ran... more"This time, he s not giving her up without a fight. " After two grueling years caring for her terminally ill mother, Hope O Shea is eager to start fresh. Except her first interior-decorating job is for a popular BDSM club part of her kinky past she misses, but had to leave behind. Worse, she somehow ends up in the arms of her ex-Dom, Gabriel Cassidy. The one man who could strip her emotions bare, so bare that rather than reveal her painful history, she ran. Gabriel never understood why Hope left without even a goodbye. Determined to get answers, he entices her to Maison Domine for a weekend on the promise of meeting the owner for another decorating job. Except being with her again reminds him why he loved her in the first place and why she shouldn t trust him as her Dom. As their attraction reignites, Hope is transported back to the sub-space bliss she felt only with Gabe. Then a nightmare from her past shows up at the club, and with no other safe place to turn, she has no choice but to trust Gabe with her shame. Leaving Gabe with a devastating choice reveal his last secret or lose his Hope. Warning: This book contains a feisty interior decorator, a dominating leather worker, heart-wrenching sex and redemption. less