Alexander Mitchell has built an empire on control. As one of the city's most sought-after architects, he commands every detail, every decision, every outcome. His life is a masterpiece of precision-until he meets Dominique Hayes.
The enigmatic art gallery owner sees through his carefully constructed walls from their first collision. Where he demands certainty, she offers chaos. Where he clings to control, she whispers a dangerous question: What if surrender is the ultimate strength?
When Dominique invites him to the Crown and Scepter-an exclusive club where powerful women guide even more powerful men through their deepest taboos-Alexander faces a choice that terrifies him: walk away, or discover what it means to truly let go.
The practice at the heart of the club's philosophy both terrifies and fascinates him. Through weeks of escalating tension and Dominique's patient, commanding guidance, Alexander learns that opening his body means opening his soul. That vulnerability is not weakness. That being taken-completely, utterly, witnessed by an entire community-is not emasculation but liberation.
But first, he must survive the week of denial that will break down every wall he's ever built. Then endure the private sessions that will teach his body a new language of pleasure. And finally, face the initiation ceremony that will change everything.
His transformation will be public. Intimate. Transcendent.
And there's no going back.
Dominique Hayes knows what Alexander needs before he does. She's guided powerful men through this journey before, watching them shed their armor and discover who they truly are beneath the performance of masculine control. But Alexander is different. His resistance runs deeper. His surrender will be harder won.
And when he finally opens himself to her-body, mind, and soul-the connection between them will be unlike anything either has experienced before.
This is a story about power and surrender. About redefining strength through vulnerability. About one man's journey from rigid control to radical acceptance of his deepest desires.
Alexander's initiation will test everything he believes about himself. But on the other side of fear lies freedom he never imagined possible.
Book One in the Crown and Scepter series.
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