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Hard Discipline: A Spicy Billionaire Age-Gap Romance
My boyfriend can’t give me what I want…but his dad can give me the dominance I crave.
Odette
My relationship with my boyfriend is fizzling out. I can’t give him what he wants, if I don’t even know what I want. That’s why I sign up for The Club app. It’s guaranteed to help you explore your fantasies - safely and anonymously. I may have told a little white lie about my experience level - but I’m confident that I can handle whatever discipline my match decides to give me. But when I show up at the hotel for my first scene, I know the man waiting for me. My boyfriend’s dad.
Gideon
Ever since my wife’s death I only want it one way - anonymous, and with me in total control. I’m not a nice, soft dom. Quite the opposite. I’m definitely not the one for a woman looking to try submission for the first time. But that’s not the biggest problem I have with the woman who just walked into my hotel room. Odette is my son’s girlfriend. I’m not the world’s best dad, but even I’m not that bad. But when I try to send her away, we end up entangled in something hotter than either of us bargained for. Our age gap is too big, and I’m too scarred to ever give her what she wants. But after one night together, I can’t let her go…
Look for other books in the Lessons in Dominance AFTER HOURS by Caitlin Crews, HARD DISCIPLINE by Jackie Ashenden and BAD GIRL DILEMMA by Zara Cox.
Odette
My relationship with my boyfriend is fizzling out. I can’t give him what he wants, if I don’t even know what I want. That’s why I sign up for The Club app. It’s guaranteed to help you explore your fantasies - safely and anonymously. I may have told a little white lie about my experience level - but I’m confident that I can handle whatever discipline my match decides to give me. But when I show up at the hotel for my first scene, I know the man waiting for me. My boyfriend’s dad.
Gideon
Ever since my wife’s death I only want it one way - anonymous, and with me in total control. I’m not a nice, soft dom. Quite the opposite. I’m definitely not the one for a woman looking to try submission for the first time. But that’s not the biggest problem I have with the woman who just walked into my hotel room. Odette is my son’s girlfriend. I’m not the world’s best dad, but even I’m not that bad. But when I try to send her away, we end up entangled in something hotter than either of us bargained for. Our age gap is too big, and I’m too scarred to ever give her what she wants. But after one night together, I can’t let her go…
Look for other books in the Lessons in Dominance AFTER HOURS by Caitlin Crews, HARD DISCIPLINE by Jackie Ashenden and BAD GIRL DILEMMA by Zara Cox.
168 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2025
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About the author
Jackie Ashenden
497 books977 followersJackie has been writing fiction since she was eleven years old. Mild mannered fantasy/SF/pseudo-literary writer by day, obsessive romance writer by night, she used to balance her writing with the more serious job of librarianship until a chance meeting with another romance writer prompted her to throw off the shackles of her day job and devote herself to the true love of her heart – writing romance. She particularly likes to write dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who've just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines.
She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids, two cats and some guppies (possibly dead guppies by the time you read this). When she's not torturing alpha males and their stroppy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, posting random crap on her blog, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband.
She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids, two cats and some guppies (possibly dead guppies by the time you read this). When she's not torturing alpha males and their stroppy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, posting random crap on her blog, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband.
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June 17, 2025
This author consistently provides easy to enjoy stories that are fun, and this couple that are opposites turned lovers is another good one.
Odette is way out of her league in so many ways, but she finds the courage to overcome her fears and meet with the anonymous "Mr. Six", for her first D/s experience. Gideon slips out of his Dom roll a bit quicker than I expected, but Odette has exactly what he needs.
They have excellent chemistry between them, and this is a steamy read. This was also a page turner, and I finished the read too soon for my liking. I recommend this read and other works by this talented author.
Odette is way out of her league in so many ways, but she finds the courage to overcome her fears and meet with the anonymous "Mr. Six", for her first D/s experience. Gideon slips out of his Dom roll a bit quicker than I expected, but Odette has exactly what he needs.
They have excellent chemistry between them, and this is a steamy read. This was also a page turner, and I finished the read too soon for my liking. I recommend this read and other works by this talented author.
June 26, 2025
Really enjoyed this book. I loved how two lost souls found each other when they needed each other the most. There was a lot of spice, and a lot of heartwarming moment as well. A great fast paced book. This was my first book from this author and I will definitely be reading more of her work.
August 25, 2025
HOT & HEAVY
Fun , HOT little DOM SUB story ! Nothing more interesting than a grieving DOM & victim SUB trying to find if they fit in that kind of story .. the author did a great job with this shorter version of this lifestyle genre ! Highly recommend this !
Fun , HOT little DOM SUB story ! Nothing more interesting than a grieving DOM & victim SUB trying to find if they fit in that kind of story .. the author did a great job with this shorter version of this lifestyle genre ! Highly recommend this !
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