C.D. Reiss – Songs of Submission Reading Order

 

Beg Tease Submit – Sequence One (Songs of Submission Bundle Book 1)

This omni edition contains the three novellas of Sequence One. It runs about 360 pages of print, or 95K words.

Beg (Songs of Submission 1)
My name is Monica. I’m a singer born and raised in Los Angeles.
I’ve stopped dating. When I cut a record, or win a Grammy, maybe then I’ll be with someone, but every man in my past has done everything he could to make me submit myself to him, and it’s gotten in the way of my career. I won’t do it again.

But there’s Jonathan. He owns the high-rise hotel where I work, and he is gorgeous and charming. I refuse to fall in love with him, even though when he asks me to submit to him, I want nothing more.

Tease (Songs of Submission 2)
When Jonathan was gone I couldn’t stop thinking about him, and the first thing he did when he got back was demand more of me. I’m willing to give him my body and my time, but I find myself giving up pieces of my heart.

My career is on track, and even though I can’t write a thing, I can sing. So I’ll go to the art opening with him, because his ex wife will be there. I feel this need to protect him from hurt, though in bed, his domination brings me to my knees.

This man is going to break me into a million little pieces.

Submit (Songs of Submission 3)
“You’re mine. The minute I told you to spread your legs and you did it, you were mine. When I told you to beg for it and you did, you were mine. When you put your hands behind your back without being told, I owned you. You never had to say a word. You are a natural submissive.”

No. God, no.

My name is Monica, and no matter what Jonathan says, I am not submissive.

****18+ GRAPHIC LANGUAGE, SEX, AND ADULT SITUATIONS****

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Jessica and Sharon: Parts 1 and 2, To Read After Submit (Songs of Dominance)

(Songs of Submission 3.5)

The world through Jonathan Drazen’s eyes.

*This book is NOT a standalone. You need to read the others in the Songs of Submission Series*

The Songs of Dominance were released as an experiment. They were traded peer-to-peer on the Goodreads group, CD Canaries, and on my Facebook page.
But the stories have become canonical, and things are revealed here that will be come important later, so I feel they need to reach a larger audience.
Please read these after Submit, or you’re going to run into major spoilers. It’s best if you read before Control, but not a big deal if you read Control first.

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***UPDATE!!! NOW A PART OF DOMINANCE (Songs of Submission #8)

 

Control Burn Resist – Sequence Two (Songs of Submission Bundle Book 2)

Control (Songs of Submission 4)
What you’re breaking isn’t some little, meaningless coupling. We aren’t some casual screw, and we never were. Not from the first night. Not from the first time I laid eyes on you. You were built for me. I denied it as long as I could, but we were meant to be together. You are the sea under my sky. We are bound at the horizon.

Burn (Songs of Submission 5)
Here’s how it’s going to be, goddess.
Until you surrender yourself to me fully, I will not touch you.
Until the world can know you belong to me, I will not kiss you.
I’m going to be inches away, at your side. I’m going to whisper in your ear and put my breath on your neck, but the heat of my skin will not feel the shudder of yours until you commit yourself to me completely.

***READ RACHEL HERE (Songs of Submission 5.5)

Resist (Songs of Submission 6)
I looked down at him, with his tourmaline eyes and copper hair, and believed him despite my better judgment.
I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did.
My heart wasn’t sensible or guarded enough. Not by a sight. I was a walking raw nerve ending of emotion, as if the years I’d spent away from men and sex had made me more emotional, more vulnerable, more foolish.
I ran my fingers through his hair, feeling like the victim of a crime of consent.

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Rachel: Read After Burn (before Resist) (Songs of Submission 5.5)

Jonathan and Monica’s story. It’s simply a supplement.
“Do people like you ever have wishes, Jonathan?
What does that mean? People like me, Rachel?
People who have everything. Was there ever something you wanted but could only wish for?”

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***UPDATE!!! NOW A PART OF DOMINANCE (Songs of Submission #8)

Sing (Songs of Submission Book 7)

This is the last book in the series.

Take my hand, my love.
On sinews of air we tread
Aught but distance our guide
With no tempo to our gait
No endpoint drawn
Neither plot nor plan
By the thorns of a compass rose
We bound toward the horizon

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Monica: To read after Sing  (Songs of Submission 7.5)

TO BE READ AFTER *SING*

This ten page story was sent free to the mailing list on 11/14/13. If you still want it free, another fan can send it to you. If you don’t mind paying 99c, it’s right here. I’m not making it free because I already have two free books on Amazon, and that’s enough.
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MONICA
I missed two things.
I missed my freedom, and I missed slavery.
I got myself caught in a nether region where I couldn’t come and go as I pleased, and I didn’t feel protected.

I was being unfair and I knew it. What man could be expected to keep up Jonathan’s intensity for any length of time? No human could continue to be a raging lion after having their heart ripped out.

So, though we burdened each other with many things, I never burdened him with my longing for my dominant Jonathan. That man was gone. I loved the man who replaced him. He was everything I almost lost in that nightmare of a hospital. He was funny and thoughtful. Gracious and wise. He was still the best lover I’d ever laid my hands on.

But he wasn’t the lion of a man he’d been, until today. The day my king returned….
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***Be advised this is the roughest scene of intimacy in the whole series.***

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***UPDATE!!! NOW A PART OF DOMINANCE (Songs of Submission #8)

Dominance: (A Submission Series Reader) (Songs of Submission Book 8)

It is four short stories, as follows….

JESSICA (to read after Submit)
So, what exactly happened on the night of the Eclipse show?
Why did Jonathan change his tune so radically after it.
Find out here, in fine detail.

SHARON (to read after Submit)
We all know Jonathan had a sub up in San Francisco. What was their relationship like, and how did it end?

RACHEL (to read after Burn)
On the day of his engagement party, a young Jonathan in put under hypnosis and remembers things best forgotten.

MONICA (to read after Sing)
After the events of Sing, how did Monica handle her new life, her new definitions of herself, her career and where it fit in with her relationship?
WARNING: Unbelievably hot, rough, sadomasochistic sex that will leave you in a breathless sweat.

At some point, these stories are going to be bundled with SING as extras. I want to make them available to current readers for a limited time, so they don’t miss out, or have to buy the Sing bundle to read them.

Purchase Dominance: (A Submission Series Reader) (Songs of Submission Book 8) at Amazon

 

Updated Nov. 2014