Graceful Submission (from publisher):Plus-sized Grace Kinison lives a dull life. She’s a teacher and aspiring author, who does nothing but work, and then write on her novel. That is until she becomes a cyber submissive.
Grace has agreed to help her childhood friend’s husband plan her surprise birthday party. Grace thinks her fellow party planner, Toffer Shelley, is a writer on a TV show. What she doesn’t know is that he’s the show’s sexy star, Drake Dawson. He’s a Dom, and he wants to work his magic on her.
When Grace runs into trouble at work her cyber relationship turns into the real thing after she travels to Hollywood to meet Toffer. She’s thrilled to be meeting her Master, until she realizes that he’s the most gorgeous man in Hollywood.
But Toffer won’t let Grace judge him by his looks. He takes her on a sexual journey full of bondage and submission, which give her strength to overcome challenges in her own work.
Review: This was actually one of the first tales I read by Barron and one of the first bdsm tale I read. There are things I like about this story and things I don't. I did not like how Grace 'met' Toffer on the internet, flew to his home and basically blindfolded and trussed herself up naked and alone in his house. That is so scary. So unsafe. Within this story I know that the author was using that as a trust point, but please, please, never do that in real life. It did upset and hurt Grace some that she did not know Toffer's other identity. Think about all the really horrifying things that could have gone wrong. *shudders* Grace and Toffer's initial online chats are fun. It still takes a bit to think about online/phone sex and bdsm and how that works. As a DD bra wearer myself, I find it hard to believe that Grace was able to hide those and that her coworker just suddenly found them, DDs are hard to hide. This story of course falls back onto the jealous, skinny ex who just happens to be a model. I wonder, if Toffer liked full bodied women, why didn't he date one? Why have sex with someone you don't like? They apparently didn't have a bdsm relationship. This is a great one-time read, but just wasn't as good on reread for this reader.
There is a follow-up short for this story that I will review at some point.
