Submissive on the Run (1Night Stand)

By Tara Quan

Obscene wealth and a toxic family taught Joss Bradlee to care about no one. He moved through life in a caustic shell, fending off gold-diggers with his sharp tongue and abrasive personality. But a stubborn submissive saw past his nonchalant act, and he fell hard and fast for a girl he didn’t deserve. When she accidentally stumbled into the line of fire, he moved heaven and earth to protect her, even if it meant letting her go. Eight months later, he ensures her safety and tracks her down, finally ready to claim the one person that matters. The only problem—she wants nothing to do with him.

On the run for close to a year, Kim Tran receives a surprise call from the man who’d put her life in danger. His family hired assassins to kill her, but he’s somehow convinced they still had a chance. With their entire relationship built on a lie, she resists the instinct to sprint straight into his arms. Faced with a social divide no sane person would bridge, she cuts her losses and breaks her own heart. But the Dominant she loves has other plans, and he’s spent his entire life getting his way. Too late to run and with nowhere to hide, she faces an adversary well versed in all her weaknesses.

At the Carnivore Club, two exhibitionists meet for a battle of wills, lured by a one-night stand service, misplaced cat, and several helping hands. With the aid of handcuffs, disciplinary measures, and a capture game, a reluctant sub rediscovers the pleasures of bondage, the thrill of display, and the ecstasy of surrender.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Jul 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683610762

Tara Quan

Globetrotter, lover of languages, and romance author, Tara Quan has an addiction for crafting tales with a pinch of spice and a smidgen of kink. Inspired by her travels, Tara enjoys tossing her kick-ass heroines and alpha males into exotic contemporary locales, fantasy worlds, and post-apocalyptic futures. Armed with magical powers or conventional weapons, her characters are guaranteed a suspenseful and sensual ride, as well as their own happily ever after

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Submissive on the Run

Copyright  2016 by Tara Quan

ISBN: 978-1-68361-076-2

Cover art by Fiona Jayde

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Dear Reader,

Thank you for picking up Submissive on the Run. I’ve always been a huge fan of Cherise Sinclair and Kresley Cole. After losing myself for countless hours amidst their sexy Dominants and feisty submissives, I couldn’t resist creating my own adventurous pairs. Regardless of genre, I keep my stories lighthearted, the angst to a minimum, and the sex hot enough to make your face warm. In all my romances, I aim for a few laughs, a handful of clever twists, and a scorching happily ever after.

The Carnivore Club welcomes all fans of BDSM romance. After penning my first contribution to this series, I received several hints to center a story around the kickass dungeon monitor from Submissive on Display. Unable to resist, I pitched Kim against Joss Bradlee—an abrasive lawyer with a habit of saying whatever he thinks. It turns out the two have a long and complicated history, and Madame Eve has one night to put their relationship to rights.

If a sprinkling of humor and some creative interrogation techniques are your cup of tea, I hope you’ll give this romantic comedy a shot. If you stumble upon some side characters you think deserve stories of their own, drop me a line at [e-mail], or connect with me on Facebook and Twitter. Obviously, I’m very responsive to reader requests.

Tara Quan

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Submissive on the Run

Obscene wealth and a toxic family taught Joss Bradlee to care about no one. He moved through life in a caustic shell, fending off gold-diggers with his sharp tongue and abrasive personality. But a stubborn submissive saw past his nonchalant act, and he fell hard and fast for a girl he didn’t deserve. When she accidentally stumbled into the line of fire, he moved heaven and earth to protect her, even if it meant letting her go. Ten months later, he ensures her safety and tracks her down, finally ready to claim the one person that matters. The only problem—she wants nothing to do with him.

On the run for close to a year, Kim Tran receives a surprise call from the man who’d put her life in danger. His family hired assassins to kill her, but he’s somehow convinced they still had a chance. With their entire relationship built on a lie, she resists the instinct to sprint straight into his arms. Faced with a social divide no sane person would bridge, she cuts her losses and breaks her own heart. But the Dominant she loves has other plans, and he’s spent his entire life getting his way. Too late to run and with nowhere to hide, she faces an adversary well versed in all her weaknesses.

At the Carnivore Club, two exhibitionists meet for a battle of wills, lured by a one-night stand service, misplaced cat, and several helping hands. With the aid of handcuffs, disciplinary measures, and a capture game, a reluctant sub rediscovers the pleasures of bondage, the thrill of display, and the ecstasy of surrender.

Dedication

To the readers and editors who’ve commented on Kim’s awesomeness, thus inspiring me to give my kickass dungeon monitor her own story.

Submissive on the Run

A 1Night Stand Story

By

Tara Quan

Chapter One

When rays of sunshine sneaked through the holes in her makeshift drapes, Kim Tran declared defeat. The more she chased sleep, the more it eluded her. Already losing the battle with the desert’s morning heat, her underpowered air-conditioning unit emitted a low whine punctuated by intermittent creaks. As she rolled onto her back and kicked the wrinkled bed sheets off her calves, she attempted to snap out of the unending doldrums.

Wallowing in self-pity served nobody. Smile long enough, pretend hard enough, and happiness becomes reality. Until a year ago, her family’s generations-old secret to a lifetime of contentment had never failed her.

But painting a false face and pursuing the illusion of optimism proved more difficult with each night she spent alone. She missed Boston, despite its blizzards and blistering winters. This month would have brought the end of spring, heralding a summer muted by cool river breezes and the occasional chill. New England’s temperamental climate couldn’t be more different from Las Vegas’s never-ending heat.

A year ago, her major concern had been saving up for an apartment security deposit. With graduation on the verge of forcing her out of on-campus housing, she’d fretted about her senior thesis, crammed for exams between classes and part-time jobs, and siphoned away funds for certain extra-curricular activities. Instead of mentioning the white boy her parents would never approve of, she’d lied to them about her Memorial Day weekend plans, citing a school project as her reason for remaining in the city.

Karma turned out to be a bitch. One little lie, and she’d landed on the opposite side of the country almost a year later, strapped for cash and unable to contact her family, all thanks to the man in question.

If Joss hadn’t planned a weekend getaway at his boss’s beach house on Martha’s Vineyard, she wouldn’t have needed to borrow a computer. If she hadn’t borrowed the computer, she wouldn’t have spotted some odd-looking accounting software. Having studied to become an accountant, she hadn’t been able to resist snooping.

If she hadn’t snooped, she wouldn’t be in witness protection—the shittiest kind, for crimes no one cared about. The kind where the US Marshals basically said, in somewhat nicer words, she was shit out of luck.

Yes, it all led back to kinky sex. Okay, maybe curiosity and hacking proclivities had something to do with it, but she preferred to blame hormones. She should have listened to her mother and saved sex for after she’d earned a degree. Heck, considering her current predicament, she should have waited until after she’d earned a PhD in mathematics.

To add insult to injury, one particular face persisted at haunting her waking dreams. She couldn’t talk to a Dom without making an immediate comparison to her former lover, couldn’t witness a scene without recalling the ones they’d shared. Since she worked as a dungeon monitor in Sin City’s swankiest BDSM