Books like The Surrender by Toni Bentley

In the high‑stakes world of Barbary Wharf, media mogul Nick Caspian battles ex‑wife Gina Ryrrell to secure her loyalty and restore her family newspaper’s glory.

A steamy anthology by Cheyenne McCray that follows three women as they explore dominant/submissive fantasies and surrender to irresistible partners.

Michael A. Singer recounts his own journey from quiet hippie years and computer engineering to pursuing enlightenment, offering meditation and self‑realization guidance.

Prince Olaf of Norway, a fierce Viking warrior, and Princess Erin of Ireland, a formidable Irish noblewoman, must confront love and loyalty as they are bound together by war and a vengeful past.

In San Francisco’s Pinnacle club, Ava Gregory discovers the height of pleasure through Shibari bondage, meeting the domineering master Desmond Hale and a journalist named James who opens a new world of surrender.

A journey from a Catholic schoolgirl to a pioneering sex-positive feminist and pornographer.

Judith C. Brown’s *Immodest Acts* chronicles the rise and fall of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, whose visions, investigated supernaturally, led to the earliest documented lesbian affair in modern Western history.

A historical nonfiction analysis of women's sexual behavior, focusing on nymphomania and other mania, examines social conditions and biographical cases, contextualizing within the broader history of women.

A biographical look at a woman’s life and work within the sex-oriented business sector.

Robin Rinaldi, a 44‑year‑old San Francisco magazine journalist, spends a year living in an open marriage—juggling weekend family life with weekday explorations of sexuality and intimacy—before confronting the limits of her own desires.

Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field.

A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of sex stripped of sentiment, of a life of physical gratification and a relentlessly honest look at the consequences -- both liberating and otherwise -- have created this candid, powerful, and deeply intelligent depiction of unfettered sexuality.

When Savannah Clare sails into New York harbour, her dark green eyes are anxious. What will the future hold? She knows so little of her past. American-born, she was taken to England for a genteel upbringing, when her mother died And now she is bound for the Deep South and the plantation which her father owns. Hut why has he never acknowledged her existence by even a letter? Aboard a Mississippi steamship the piercing gaze of raven-haired Rue Delaney, a riverboat gambler, tempts Savannah into bitter sweet desire. She longs to accept his offer of marriage, but a few short weeks have made her worldly wise, and she cannot believe Rue's honied words. Under the dark shadow of Civil War, their destinies again become dangerously intertwined when,after her father’s death, Savannah learns that her mother was a mulatto. She is bylaw, a slave -- and must trade herself to save the life of the man she loves.

A tale of love, passion, and the challenges of marriage for a woman of the theatre in 19th-century England.