Author: marensmith

“What a pleasure to be back at the Castle… addictive and well-written…” Amazon ReviewerNo one said being an adult was easy. Turns out, being a Little is even harder.After almost a year of construction, the Castle looms on the cusp of its grand reopening. The only problem is, it isn’t ready. Something is up with the construction crew Marshall hired to get them back to full working order. Two … back to full working order. Two days before guests are due to arrive, the construction company bails leaving Marshall with a Castle that is barely functional and he is forced…

It started with Piggy. It escalated with Kitty. It ends with Puppy. For almost a year, Ethen O’Dowell has been locked behind bars and yet Puppy is far from free. A legal ward of her parents, she shares her bedroom with Pony, the only part of her old, submissive life that she has left… apart from the guilt, the fear, and the weekly punishments Ethen dishes out every time they visit him. Escape … him. Escape is all Puppy dreams about. Escape and somehow finding the courage to once more become the person she used to be–someone who lived life…

The Ripper’s last victim…The last thing museum owner Flora O’Bannon expects is to find her name on a 150-year-old locket. As she brushes the dust away, the mystery doesn’t just deepen… it explodes. In a fury of blue swirling light, it rips her from her museum, whisks her back in time, and drops her in the middle of London’s Whitechapel, an unwilling witness to the single most horrific murder … horrific murder to rock the Victorian world.Her only hope…Butcher and shop owner Draven Gray lost everything with the deaths of his wife and son. At times, it’s as if he’s…

MerrisI’m going to find the man who killed my sister. He’s going to pay for what he’s done.I don’t know his name, but I know his face. Every night in my dreams, he emerges from the shadows. A dark and dangerous creature with a sinful smile. Hunting me. His prey. But when he finally catches me, I come to crave his bite… and when I please. But nothing’s sweeter than the taste of a submissive woman–one who wants revenge. She’s smart, brazen, fearless when she ought not to be. I’ll teach her the monster living in the shadows can and…

He’s known her since she was two… go, Clover does what she always has. She runs… straight to Madden, only this time, he’s all done playing big brother.He’s loved her since she was twelve…A dominant man, Madden Briggs knows a submissive when he sees one, and in Clover he sees everything he’s ever wanted, but she’s kept him strictly in the like-a-brother zone for more than twenty years. That all comes to an end the day she shows up at his door. She wants a job; he hires her. She needs money; he’ll let her earn it. She dreams about…

An ex-cop sent to prison for something he didn’t do, Kurt Doyle knows from experience that nothing good ever happens on a Monday. So when his Grams hooks him up with a friend in need of a bodyguard, he knows better than to get involved… until the Little in Scotti Moore provokes the dominant Daddy in him. She’s small, she’s sweet, she’s innocent. She’s almost more trouble than she’s worth, and … she’s a librarian, for crying out loud. But she needs his protection, and even if she is everything he wants, he knows the last thing she needs is…

I was his new beginning. He was my last chance.I need a husband. Today. Now, if possible. I thought any man would do, but when my first choice is run out of town the day before we’re to be married, I’m forced to consider it when cowboy Gage Pennell proposes. I don’t know him. I’ve never met him before today. Up until a few hours ago, he was working for my nearest and dearest enemy, the same man … same man who wants to steal everything from me.I’d rather die than let that happen. If my neighbor gets his way,…

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas… unless it gets stranded on a deserted island too.In Vegas for a cousin’s wedding, the last thing Daniel Fortner is looking for is a marriage of his own. But then Gwen crashes—literally—into his life and suddenly Daniel’s on the run. She’s a pickpocket, a car thief, a boat thief, the woman who drugged him for his own good, and quite possibly the most fun … most fun he’s had in years. He never meant to marry her, but once the bullets and heart-stopping kisses start flying, how could he ever let her go?more

She was a salvage operator, patrolling the depths of deep space.He was a professional consort to royalty, built like a Neanderthal. Twice her width and twice her weight, his six-pack abs had six-pack abs. She knew, because she’d seen them. It really was kind of too bad they didn’t get along.Note: Originally published as part of the Alien Alphas anthology, Her Consort is a short, enemies to lovers … a short, enemies to lovers romance. If dominant heroes and kink sex offend you, please don’t purchase this story.more

His ad read: Submissive wanted – 3 Days Only!For Eric, dominant tendencies ran in the family. But God help him, if he had to sit through another holiday dungeon party matched to the worst submissive his mother could find, he was going to choke somebody… and not in a good way. Still, never in his wildest dreams did he expect that ad to work. He certainly didn’t expect to find a submissive like … submissive like Lacey—shy, reserved, unbelievably eager to please, and best of all, a preferential Little that fit perfectly with his Daddy Dom desires. The only fly…