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The Power to Please #3

His Name Is Sir

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Why won’t the past stay where it belongs?

Nonnie Crawford seeks a destiny outside society’s norms, mapping her own sexual journey into the realm of BDSM. She puts the past behind her and looks forward with a newfound sense of freedom and purpose.

Gibson Reeves, the enigmatic businessman, refuses to be relegated to the archives of Nonnie’s story. He claims his share of her sensual narrative and leaves her confused about the fine line between aversion and attraction.

Meanwhile, the opportunistic playboy, Michael Weston, continues to make unwanted appearances in her life. He wants her back, and her adamant refusals don’t dampen his desire.

Nonnie’s world is about to be rocked to its core. She doesn’t know it yet, but the worst has already happened.


*Warning: adult material. This book contains explicit language and scenes of a sexual nature, including exhibitionism, f/M/f/f, light bondage and consensual domination and submission, which some readers may find objectionable.*

His Name Is Sir is book three of The Power to Please, a BDSM erotic romance series. It is approximately 94,000 words, 340 print pages.

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“The Power to Please,” is a planned four-part series of novels chronicling Nonnie Crawford’s journey into the alluring but sometimes dangerous realm of BDSM.

After ending her disastrous ten-year marriage, Nonnie finds herself irresistibly drawn by desire. She yearns to submit herself, sexually, to a powerful and dominant male.

Two Doms vie for Nonnie’s submission, the enigmatic Businessman and the charming Playboy. Both men want to guide her sensual journey and lead her to places she never imagined she might go.

Knowing who to trust is always a challenge, and the odds of Nonnie making a mistake are multiplied when she’s gripped by the thrill of new passion. Her choices prove the difference between perfect bliss and utter ruin.

In the end, she must answer a critical question -- in a relationship that’s all about the exchange of power, who holds the ultimate power to please?

340 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2013

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About the author

Deena Ward

6 books133 followers
I think nothing could be finer than having a job which demands I spend my days in worlds of my own creation.

I recently finished a BDSM erotic romance series, "The Power to Please." All four books are available at the Amazon Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, AllRomance Ebooks and Smashwords. One complete volume of all four novels, "The Power to Please Collection," is also available.

Try the first book in the series, "The Businessman's Tie," for FREE at Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Smashwords, AllRomance, Google Play, Kobo, Sony, Oyster and others.

I live in the Midwest USA with my partner and a rowdy, plump beagle.

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The Power to Please — a dark and sensual tale of shattering loss and redeeming love.

Who knows where one night of passion might lead?

Recently-divorced Nonnie Crawford craves a new beginning -- it arrives in the form of an enigmatic, dark-eyed stranger she dubs The Businessman. He seduces her with a sizzling introduction to the thrill of sexual submission. As the days pass, she can't forget him or how he made her feel. She seeks him out, her search leading to a BDSM club where she meets Michael Weston, a charming playboy who's keen to seize the reins left dangling by the absent Businessman.

Knowing who to trust is always a challenge, and the odds of making a mistake are multiplied when gripped by new, intoxicating desires. Nonnie's choices prove the difference between perfect bliss and devastating ruin. Truth and trust. She'll need both as she struggles to earn indestructible love, and to claim, with that love, the ultimate power to please.

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Warning: adult material. This series contains explicit language and scenes of a sexual nature, including exhibitionism, multi-partner scenes, S&M, bondage, consensual domination and submission, and other activities which some readers may find objectionable.

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The Power to Please is a four-book, BDSM erotic romance. Titles in the series should be read in order:
1 - The Businessman’s Tie
2 - The Playboy’s Proposition
3 - His Name Is Sir
4 - The Submissive’s Last Word

All books are included in "The Power to Please Collection."

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Profile Image for Jessie Verona.
12 reviews14 followers
May 3, 2013
I loved this book! It's the best book in the series. It was nice to see Nonnie discover more about how she wants to live her life and to simply watch her enjoy herself. The writing was tight and the pacing good. And I thought a couple of the scenes were smoking hot. Gibson really grew on me in this book and I felt even more invested in Nonnie.



Ok, this is a serious spoiler about something I figured out about the whole series. So if you haven't read it yet you really don't want to read on...
Profile Image for Christine B.
554 reviews102 followers
May 22, 2019
Nonnie Crawford world has been turned upside down with learn all she can in the BDSM scene. Her new dominate Michael is determine to keep her to himself and away from Gibson Reeves. Being a new submissive Nonnie is eager to learn to submit but does she pick the wrong dominate or is he teaching or exploiting the wrong thing for his personal gain. Not knowing this new world Nonnie trust everything her new Dom is giving her especially all the new found abilities to fully give yourself over to someone.

Will Nonnie learn to quick that she trust the wrong Dom. Will trusting the right Dom give Nonnie what she been missing or her will it ruin her innocence and change who she is forever.
Profile Image for ⚜️Charlotte⚜️.
442 reviews263 followers
May 25, 2016
4 Stars,

Nonnie's life is about to be redefined...
She's discovering who she is and what she wants...educating herself in the process...however the past betrayal of
Michael continues to haunt her...(I can't wait till he gets his!)

Lovin Gibson! ❤ He certainly has redeemed himself!



Profile Image for Fab Fun & Tantalizing Reads.
566 reviews102 followers
July 16, 2013
Book 3 was my favorite. That could be because we get a whole bunch more Gibson Reeves! Now, that is a man that fans my flames ;)

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"This is new. Where'd you get your claws, little cat."
Without a moments thought or hesitation, I blurted out, "I earned them."

Gibson is The Businessman. The one from book one in the club hallway and the Fredrickson Hotel. Yep, you know the one. The mirror man. *fans self* I agree that their encounter at the hotel wasn’t ‘ideal’ but I figured that there was a reason for it, and it turns out there was. He's the man that brings out the real Nonnie. The one who speaks her mind and doesn't back down.
"...you say you want me, but that you don't want to want me. You ask me to move in with you like you're doing me some kind of high and mighty favor. I guess I'm supposed to jump at the chance to be your grateful, bowing slave. I should've been thrilled, I suppose, that you're gracious enough to allow me some scheduled free time with my friends, when it's convenient for you, of course. And you were so kind as to insult my home, my job, my experience, my age. What about me didn't you insult? God, I can't imagine why that might put me off you."

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Again, I loved and loathed this book. I loved seeing more of Gibson and learning about him and his past, and I loved the new Nonnie. The Nonnie that was trying to work out where her place in the big wide world was, the Nonnie that made deals *wink wink*. I LOATHED Michael. OMG, I didn’t think it was possible for me to hate him more than I did in books one and two, but Ms Ward is clever like that and he totally made it to at least second, if not first, place on my scum bag ladder!
I remembered how, less than two weeks later when I dumped him, I believed I reclaimed myself. Believed I belonged to me again. I hadn't known Michael had already stolen everything, that there was nothing left to reclaim. Nothing left of me.

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There was a lot to love in this book, so much. The encounter at work (*fanning again*), Nonnie’s show she was part of for Ron’s birthday in front of a crowd, the beautiful friendship she has with Elaine, but mostly just the way Nonnie sees herself. Don’t get me wrong, that twist was just all kinds of messed up and I wanted to smash things and just break down and cry at the injustice and cruelty, but *swoooooooon*, the things Gibson could make happen for her just made me sigh aloud. That man is in love I tell you.
I seem to like you any way I can get you.

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I’m very much looking forward to the next book and seeing Nonnie and Gibson’s relationship evolve even more
"What I want is for you to accept what I give you, and I'm giving you myself. Everything I have. Take what you want, Gibson. Please yourself. That's what I need and what I want."

This quote was from book 2 – The Playboys Proposition, but I felt it belonged with this book because I felt time was standing still when I just wanted more, more, more Gibson!
I attribute this to the phenomenon of time passing normally until you decide there is something you want to do. At that point, the universe conspires to slow the rotation of the Earth, the solar system and the Milky Way itself, resulting in a few days of normal time stretching into the length of a month.
Profile Image for Sylvia.
175 reviews3 followers
April 30, 2013
It just might be time to start a "I hate Michael Weston" club. Wait, that would be too good for him. I just can't believe what happened! My stomach is still in knots.

If you haven't already, read the first two books in this series. Out of order will never do. At first you may think, oh a delightful intro to BDSM story a la Cherise Sinclair. It's fun to think that. We all want that nice big Dom taking us places we really want to be. (cough, cough...in our book fantasies of course!!) But wait, it is so much darker, so much more of what I didn't really want, but am captured still by the tale.

And now I wait. I wait to see if I can get over what happened and if Nonnie can too.
Profile Image for Cindy Marchant.
74 reviews1 follower
May 2, 2013
Oh wow, what a ride! This series just keeps getting better and it's going to be a hard wait for the 4th book to come out. I loved the 1st book (free at the time) in the series enough to buy the 2nd. The 2nd book was pretty upsetting to me but I think it's good to remember that there can be a very dark side to this life style if you aren't careful and are too trusting. That said; Michael Weston needs to die! A long painful death would be most desirable!
Profile Image for Kristin Campbell.
Author 8 books180 followers
June 14, 2013
I didn't realize until I read this third installment that it is a parody of Pride and Prejudice with a lot of BDSM. Well, the BDSM part is a given, but the similarities of the characters and plots is very much like P and P.

Profile Image for Michelle ♥ The Romance Vault ♥ .
1,166 reviews97 followers
August 10, 2013
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4.5 stars. Cracking series.

Wowsers! What a ride, I kept thinking at the start how this was going to be as good as the past two - this book is all about Gibson and Nonnie with only a smattering of Michael. But with a whole pile of The Hoytes this made for extremely fun reading, their scene enacted out for Ron's birthday made me smile a lot with the comical element and was definitely steamy too, never read a BDSM scene done like that before!

I found this book had more of a romance feel running through it, but by God what happens next is riveting and off it kicks into another gear again and the sheer intensity of what happens to Nonnie and what she is put through just keeps you on your toes.

These books are definitely more than, erotic romance, they've got depth, very well written, full of wit and by crikey steamy as hell.

Can't wait for the fourth and final book out in a couple of days, I need ot find out what happens next and hopefully Nonnie gets her HEA.
Profile Image for Lucy.
159 reviews
May 16, 2013
And finally she starts to get it. Finally she sees there is good in a Dom. And then all hell breaks loose. I can't say I wouldn't have the same thoughts as her. I think I would. It's the ultimate betrayal and the most public humiliation for her. I will say The Businessman had my vote after the warning in a closet. I think this betrayal will help her and her Dom to figure out how deep their emotions run for one another. Now if the douchebag of the year never returns, can't say I would be unhappy. This book helps to reinforce that what took place in the previous book...wasn't what BDSM is at the core. That manipulators are just that, manipulators. I can't wait to read book 4 and find out if two people meant to make a life with one another can get past all their baggage and give it all an open minded try or if douchebag actually can ruin a good thing. I'm rooting for the two good ones!
Profile Image for Katherine.
173 reviews6 followers
July 8, 2013
His Name is Sir is the 3rd book in the Power to Please series bny Deena Ward and the series should definitely be read in order. The 1st book showed Nonnie's introduction to the world of BDSM, the 2nd book showed how badly things can go with an untrustworthy partner, and this book shows Nonnie exploring a relationship with Gibson and learning about trust.
The book had very steamy sexual encounters and was definitely hot. But the book wasn't all about sex - it had an interesting plot (with some surprises) and it continued the character development from the previous two books.
I cannot wait for the 4th book to be released.
Profile Image for Judy V.
312 reviews4 followers
July 15, 2013
I'm not certain who referred me to these books but I am so glad they did. This series, up to this point has been eye opening ( newbie sub making major errors in judgement), emotional, suspenseful and sexy. What more can you possibly want in a story......oh yeah, did I forget to mention hot Doms? Patiently waiting for book 4
Profile Image for Tara Marie.
484 reviews18 followers
May 4, 2013
By far best in the series..Michael will stop at nothing to get Nonnie back.. God I despised him by the end of the book... And I wish Gibson wasn't so cold all the time but overall best book in the series so far I can't wait for the next one
46 reviews3 followers
May 20, 2013
I enjoyed this the best of the trilogy. Excited to see a 4th book in the making. Hoping it will conclude the series well. 4 star rating b/c this could have been the completion of the series but left my hanging. Hoping 4th book will be better this this one....
Profile Image for Darreth.
177 reviews
June 3, 2013
I don't know if I was hooked by the first book, but I was was sure hooked by the second one. Now, as I finish up the third I am really hooked and am a loyal fan of Ms. Ward's writing. Well done! I am anxiously awaiting the last book. This is a story that gets more and more interesting.
Profile Image for Jyoti Achameesing.
359 reviews7 followers
August 15, 2013
It was a pleasure discovering layers of this relationship between Gibson & Nonnie. Spicy scenes no doubt added a new dimension to the bonding of this couple. Well awaiting the final book to see if they reveal their sentiments.
Profile Image for Santa Pala.
27 reviews
July 26, 2013
Best book of the series so far, rooting for Gibson and Nonnie, look forward to book 4
Profile Image for Jeannie.
28 reviews
December 3, 2013
GREAT BOOK!!! I wasn't really feeling book 2!!! I'm sooooo glad I read book 3 and I can't wait to get started on book 4!!!! =)
Profile Image for Deborah Bundick.
61 reviews
November 1, 2013
I started reading the series and could not put it down. I love strong women with smart mouths
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86 reviews
May 26, 2020
This series has made it into my favorite top ranking series of all time!!! Holy guacamole it’s freaking HOT, well hot really is such a minor word, it’s mouthwatering, panty wetting, sexy as HELL goodness!!!

Nonnie accepts Michael’s offer of 5 nights to explore the world of BDSM and experience the thrill of true submission. Michael is a powerful Dominate who pushes Nonnie further and faster than should be allowed. Nonnie is captivated by the handsome “Playboy” and proves that she is without a doubt a true, strong submissive woman.

All the while The Businessman, who we now know as Gibson Reeves, lurks in the back of her mind. As her 5 nights come to an end Nonnie learns some terrible secrets that make her see things in an entirely different light.

I am now reading Book 4 (The Submissive’s Last Word) and I can promise you that you will NOT be disappointed by any of these books. I cannot wait to get home tonight to finish up this series, but am also silently hating that it will be over. This will take you on a rollercoaster ride like no other, leaving you a bit breathless and a lot revved up!!!
Profile Image for Blagica .
1,390 reviews15 followers
June 12, 2015
Man! Nonnie has definitely taking a liking into being an exhibitionist. Her vacation story was fun to read to say the least.
I am so glad that Gibson Reeves takes a leading role into Nonnie's life in this book. You get to learn who and how he truly is as a Dom. He is pure heaven.
Unfortunately Michael isn't easy to get out of Nonnie's life. Thankfully she doesn't go back to that horrible man, but he still does horrible things to get back at her for leaving him.
I thought book 2 was an emotional read. Be prepared, you will be shedding tears in this story as well!
Deena Ward did a phenomenal job writing this story!
Profile Image for Rell.
184 reviews3 followers
January 4, 2015
Finally finished this book and I'm thankful that it's only one more until I complete the series. Great book but as I said on the other review this is not my cup of tea (this genre) Nonnie is a hot ass mess and Michael is a crazy compulsive liar. Some of the things that he has done are unspeakable. Nonnie finds out the truth about him because she refuses to give into him and he turns her world upside down, well that is until Gibson sweeps in to rescue her. This book (series) quickly went from that could happen to ummmm this is very unlikely to occur. It would be nice to read some books that are more reality based in regards to the lifestyle. None the less this was a good read.
Profile Image for Michele.
907 reviews11 followers
September 10, 2016
This boom was so intense and so much better than the last book. Gibson has come in and swooped her up whether she believes it or not. Nonnie needs saving but she doesn't realize it. This book was more about weaknesses and finding ways to over come them as well as self discovery. She has to know herself before she can ever love anyone truly.

But I am holding my breath and waiting for Michael to be dealt with.
Profile Image for Karen Davis.
218 reviews6 followers
February 7, 2014
Oh goodness do I wish that I did spoilers! Again, Deena Ward took a genre and presented it in a way that was tastefully done. The entire series truly has a lot of dynamics that regular romances do-the ups and downs, the doubts and fears, the self discovery...the only difference is the sexual toys and hard limits. Will Nonnie ever be understood or understand herself and her environment? I wish we all had a Gibson stashed somewhere...but then again, Gibson would stay stashed for long!!
Profile Image for Noel.
213 reviews3 followers
March 29, 2015
I loved this book!!!! I have loved "The Businessman", Gibson Reeves, from the first moment he entered Nonni's world. This story truly solidified just that. I always felt Michael Weston was a wee bit ticky ticky boom cray cray & he totally showed that side in the book. I wish Gibson wasn't quite so reserved with Nonni, as I think he has a whole other side to his contained being that is even more lovable & endearing. I can't wait to read the final book in this series!!!
Profile Image for Rochelle.
789 reviews43 followers
November 16, 2013
Uh I truly hate Michael. What a complete asshole. It took Nonnie so long to embrace her curiosity in BDSM and the first Dom she is involved in breaks her trust. She has a personality to give herself and please others which makes her a good submissive. I hope she will be able to reclaim herself and give that trust to a better Dom.
Profile Image for DeadRoseSam.
76 reviews32 followers
September 10, 2016
Holy Pride and Prejudice! I'm not sure if Ms. Ward had intended to go in this direction with the first two books in this series, but she definitely took it there in this one.
Actually, the thought of Lizzie and Darcy in a D/s relationship is really funny, but Ms. Ward made it work... with totally different characters of course.
Profile Image for Elaine Calloway.
Author 18 books80 followers
December 3, 2014
Deena Ward continues to amaze. I read the first 2 books in this series and loved them. Loved this 3rd book as well. Her voice is amazing; the characters are alive and believable.

I enjoyed seeing her relationship with Gibson and the ending was great too, well done for a series book.

Now off to read book 4!
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