This HaBO request is from Irene, who’s looking for this erotic romance:
I’ve been looking for this book for about two years and I know it is somewhere in my Kindle library, but the problem is I have thousands of books in the cloud…
I read it about five years ago and I’m pretty sure it was by an indie author on Kindle. (Not KU)
Erotic contemporary romance – what I remember is our heroine is a member of a BDSM club. She goes to scene with any Master available but she doesn’t allow the Master to have sex with her or take care of aftercare, and the club’s security/bouncers are aware of this and watch out for her. However, one day when she goes to the club, the Master who is whipping her doesn’t know what to do or is ineffective, and she is frustrated. Our hero notices and offers to take over. They have a connection and she makes an exception for him and after the scene, they go to a private room in the club to finish things up.
She owns a yarn/knitting shop, and I vaguely remember there is a robbery or something in the shop. That’s all I remember from this book and I feel like it’s such a long shot, but I would really like to find it again!
I read a ton of BDSM “club-style” romances like a decade ago, but haven’t kept up with anything new.
The specific plot doesn’t ring a bell, but check out the plot summaries for Lexi Blake’s Masters & Mercenaries series. I haven’t read all of them, but almost all of them have scenes where the subs (almost always women) sit around at the club doing some sort of crafts and gossiping about their doms (almost always men).
I have no idea what this one is but I am now wondering if there is a BDSM in which the Domme knits her restraints.
@Vicki: The domme makes her sub knit their own restraints. It’s called “Total Yarn Exchange.”
I don’t know the answer to the HABO, but based on DiscoDebDolly’s comment, I checked out the Masters and Mercenaries series on Amazon and found that the first book is free.
There’s a joke in here about kinks in yarn, but I can’t quite put it together.
Could it be Tied & Twisted (Blue Room VIPs Book 1) by Emily Ryan-Davis? The heroine owns a yarn shop that gets robbed. The hero does security work for her. There is a whipping scene in a BDSM club where the hero takes over the whipping after he recognizes the heroine, but the heroine doesn’t know it is the hero. I think she is masked the whole time. The hero doesn’t tell her until later and she is pissed.
There’s an ff bdsm knitting novella – called Stitch and Bitch? Maybe. It’s in the Agony/Ecstasy anthology edited by Jane Litte. No knit bondage but I think there’s something kinky with a knitting needle. Maybe?
And can I just say that I’m happy to learn about an mf romance that has knitting in it without cancer or tragic deaths.
Definitely not the answer to the HABO, but a great sweet romance between a single werewolf dad and a knitting shop owner is UNRAVELING MIDNIGHT by Stephanie Beck.
Bought and read Tied and Twisted and I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.
Bought and read Tied and Twisted and I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.
Not the HABO, but Amy Lane wrote a great, four novella m/m series centered on a fiber shop and knitting called The Granby Knitting Menagerie. Each novella has a knitting pattern at the end that connects with story. Wooing with knitting, a variety of fiber-bearing critters, and a bit of angst.
Ah yes the knitting subgenre of BDSM of course that is a thing
The part with the heroine being underwhelmed by the Dom and another Dom interfering reminds me of Cherise Sinclair’s If only. It’s a menage and the heroes are friends and FBI agents. I don’t remember knitting wing involved though 😀
Hi I’m Irene, the one who sent this request in, and Marci and Alexandra are right! It is Tied & Twisted! Thank you SO MUCH! I love this community! You are all so awesome!
Thank you for the other suggestions! I am going to have to check them out too just because they’ve made me curious 🙂 But first I need to reread this book now that I’ve found it again after searching for so long. I’m so happy I could cry!
Hoopla has Unravelling Midnight through my library account, so that might be accessible for anyone else interested in it as well. Thanks for the rec, Jeannette!