Hello all,
For those of you who’ve been waiting for the serialized story to finally be released as a collection, your day is here. The entire Her Troika serialization has been collected into a single volume, and published as “Her Troika (The Complete Story)”. The list price is $5.99, but I’m leaving it at $4.99 for now. It’s currently available at all major retailers … except — as usual — Apple:/ I’ve no real idea when Apple will decide to allow it to go live, but my guess is within the next couple of weeks. A print edition is currently in the proofing phase, but when it’s ready I’ll announce it here too.
Particulars are below…
Two strict Doms, one brave sub, and a slave auction…
Kurt Erickson has been offered a Dom’s dream job. He picks his own hours, answers to no one, and gets to train submissive women all day. One of those submissive women happens to be his willing wife. Making Breanna’s deepest, darkest fantasy come true is the easy part. It may be trickier to persuade his best friend Derek to … buy her.
Breanna Erickson prides herself on being ready for anything. From the courtroom to the bedroom, she can handle it all. But when her strict, but loving, husband gives her the chance to live out a dream, she finds there are things no woman can be ready for.
Derek’s marriage ended because he buried dark needs that proved incompatible with a vanilla wife. He’s buried those needs, those truths, deep down, determined to never let them hurt him again. Being Kurt’s best friend has many benefits, but some of them are much more than Derek is ready for — or so he thinks.
Then one night, an auction. Only a select few women agree to a Term of Service to the shadowy organization known as the Dominion Trust. One of them is Breanna. For Kurt, thrilling, tantalizing possibilities are laid out before him. For Breanna, it’s the chance to realize a dark, erotic dream — and to heal a broken heart. And for Derek, forced to confront who he really is — and what he never realized he needed — he must take that first step.
All he has to do is bid on her …
Publisher’s Warning: Intended for mature readers. 18 and over only!
This BDSM book contains the following acts or themes: Consensual sexual slavery (auctioning), pony play, D/s, total power exchange, bondage, corporal punishment, forced exhibitionism, objectification, humiliation.
MFM menage BDSM erotic romance. There is no sexual interaction between the males in this story.
120,000 words
381 pages
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Oh, Oh, OH! I’ve been waiting for this. Yummmm. Can’t wait to read the whole series. Love the cover, Trent. 🙂
Thank you, Christina! I’m happy to send you a copy if you’ve got a format preference. Just let me know:)
OOh! That’s very kind of you. Can you pop me a kindle copy 🙂 I promise to review. Truly loved the start of this series and would love to continue it – thanks Trent 🙂
Sent you one, Christina. Let me know if you have issues with it.
It didn’t even occur to me that you’d release the series in one volume, though it really should have! Mind you, I don’t think I could have waited even just a tiny bit longer as I’ve loved them all so much 🙂
I’m on the fifth book now and it’s just getting better and better. I’ve had to instate a rule of one chapter a day else I’ll go through it too fast 😉 At this stage, I’m not sure how it’s going to end (just finished the chapter where Kurt and Derek tell Breanna about Quinton), but I do rather hope there’ll be a possibility to hear more from this lovely trio in the future.
Apologies for not responding to your reply to my other comment; it seems I’m not able to now as I left it too long. I’m very excited to hear there’ll be more Dominion Trust books!
Thank you for letting me know about the Dungeon Crawl too; I might have to try that 🙂 The book is about a couple who’ve gone to a training school. I’m not hugely far in at the moment, but I find ideas coming to me all the time that I just need to write down! It’s useful, though not so great when it’s 3am 😉
Thank you for the lovely welcome, too 😀
I’m so glad to hear that, Athena! I hope you like the ending:)
You never know when or where they might pop up again. The Dominion Trust world is everywhere, so I think there’s a good likelihood you’ll see these three again sometime…
I feel your pain regarding the inconvenience of the timing for our ideas — they seem to show up at the oddest times and places. That book you’re working on sounds like my kinda book! Whenever you feel like it, you should share some of it with us. The Dungeon Crawl is pretty much wide open — both published works and works-in-progress are welcome! Hope to see you there sometime:)
I am looking forward to this compilation 🙂
I hope you don’t mind me responding to the question you posed in your April 16th response on the Top Ten BDSM Books thread. It no longer seems possible there…
You asked which five and why –
So… you’re going to call me on that, eh? Homework 🙂
The Fab Five:
Story of O / O&O / Pets: Bach’s Story / Prima / Ice Queen (MoMS is beckoning me on the tbr)
No cop out intended but your reasons echo mine closely. However, let’s see if I can come up with some semblance of a coherent response without taking up too much of your blog space :/
The common threads, for me, are intensity and self-discovery. At least, in a literary sense. I am always fascinated by how *far* I can be led by a good story. Every time I think ‘there’s the line…’ I cross it. Of course, there is a line. It’s just nowhere near my earlier approximations.
I read Story of O when I was 15 (in French, my mother tongue). Nicked it from my parents’ library. Well, talk about boarding the Concorde outta Kansas. I skipped the training wheels. I haven’t reread it since however. Wonder how it would resonate today. It’s on the list for the sheer spark of revelation and for Declos’ sublime literary courage. At the time, it echoed as ‘dark and fascinating’ with a distinctly erotic undercurrent. I was hooked.
Although I knew in broad strokes, it took years for me to formulate a clear picture of where I could imagine myself within this brave new world. To this day, it remains, to a larger extent, fantasy. We’ll see how far I have the courage to venture outside my own mind.
O&O was like drinking jet fuel. I walked around enthralled, under siege, for days, and the edging… well… Jacob torments her readers (or at least this reader) with an insanely delicious build-up. And that last scene… whew… *crumbles to floor in a heap*. Another bold accomplishment. The one drawback here was the comedown. For a while, I couldn’t find anything to slake my greedy hunger. Nothing, that is, until Pets: Bach’s Story and Prima. Both were satisfying in varying ways and Phelps little tale was another gateway book that pushed a few buttons I didn’t even know needed pushing. Oh boy.
As for Ice Queen, it packed such an emotional wallop that my knees are still shaking. I hear there may be a reversal of sorts in MoMS but I loved the poetic intensity of the MCs’ journey and cannot wait to dig in to ‘la suite’… I am a big fan of Joey W. Hill. On a side note, one of my favorites is Hostile Takeover and your comment re sensory deprivation in one of your *Days* posts helped me deepen my appreciation of a couple of the later scenes between Ben and Marcie. It added another delicious layer. Ah, insight.
Well, I’ve taken up too much of your time already. Thanks again for your fascinating blog.
Read through Days 1 to 18 (to date) and I haven’t fainted yet *grins*. In fact, I found your posts clear, enlightening, and yes – unflinching but that is honest and brave.
As to the delayed response, no worries at all. I thank you for responding 🙂
P.S. Waaaa… I got carried away. So much for the short response :/
P.P.S. I’m about 60% through WSLF – Parker terrifies me in a doe/headlights kind of way + Drake tantalizes. Heady combo. Love the psychological exploration. You had me at BDSM Ménage. Haha!
No need to ever apologize for a long post, Layla. I LOVE talking books!
I loved Hostile Takeover too — I was pleasantly surprised at how high octane the kink was, even by JWH standards. She’s really revitalized the Knights of the Boardroom series, and I hope she continues to write titles in that series. I cannot recommend you read Mirror of My Soul highly enough. If you think Ice Queen packed an emotional wallop … you ain’t seen nothin’ yet:) An incredible book.
I loved that last scene in O&O — and I think a lot of readers who were repulsed by the book probably didn’t make it that far. It’s a pity because that scene really showed their unique form of love, and it humanized Garid to some extent. It’s certainly not a classically structured romance, but in its own way, there is definitely a satisfying HEA there. Alas, I fear Anneke may have hung it up for good vis-a-vis writing (though I hope I’m wrong on that), but an uber fan like me can always hold on to hope!
I intend to reread Story of O and post a review for it sometime soon. Like you, I’m curious how it’s held up in the almost 20 years since I last read it! I reread the Sleepy Beauty trilogy recently, and not only did it hold up well, but I appreciated it even MORE. It was as if my young brain simply hadn’t registering all that Ms. Rice was really conveying in those stories, and now, with a lot more life experience — and perhaps a smidgeon more wisdom — I saw the books in an entirely different light. Those books just blow me away with their power to make a person feel.
Darla Phelps (who we know is actually one of the a noms de plume for Maren Smith) managed to make a simple sci-fi tale just smoking hot. The first time I read it, I didn’t even really know what age play was, and in that milieu, it was a perfectly plausible idea; the aliens already saw humans as lesser beings — and in every arena save ethics, they are — so Bach viewing his “pet” in that way did have some internal logic to it. I’d love to see her revisit this world someday, though I suppose the third installment in the trilogy may have finalized it in a way that would make that difficult.
I’ve blabbed on long enough. Thanks again for the insightful comments!