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Adult • Romance • Contemporary
The Unrestrained Series • Book 1 of 10
Kate balances ambition with family expectations Drake hides his BDSM lifestyle to protect his career An article on BDSM leads to personal conflict Intense attraction complicates a professional agreement Interviews reveal hidden desires and societal pressures

Kate McDermott has lived to please her powerful, domineering father, a New York Supreme Court Justice with political ambitions. As a careful young journalist she proposes an article about BDSM in popular culture and drafts a firm agreement to keep any interview strictly professional and free of scandal.

Drake Morgan, a billionaire neurosurgeon and known Dominant in Manhattan's BDSM community, arrives for the interview and turns Kate's plans upside down. He must hide his kinky life to protect his career, while Kate must protect her reputation as attraction and complications begin to threaten both their orderly lives.

When Kate McDermott interviews Dominant Drake Morgan—her father's friend's son—her carefully written research agreement collides with intense attraction and the threat of scandal.
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Book details

Series
The Unrestrained Series Book 1 of 10
Publisher
Independently published
Publication date
March 28, 2013
Print length
388 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-1483977133

Romance + Contemporary

Reader guide

What to Know Before Reading The Agreement

Kate McDermott starts as a cautious young woman trying to avoid gossip while researching BDSM for an article. The plot centers on a secretive Dominant, Drake Morgan, who balances a public career as a neurosurgeon with private involvement in Manhattan's BDSM scene. Power dynamics, family expectations, and professional reputation shape the opening conflicts. Expect a contemporary, adult romance focused on secrecy, control, and the complications that arise when two very different social worlds meet.

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S. E. Lund

S. E. Lund

S. E. Lund lives with her family of humans and animals on the side of a mountain in view of an active volcano in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Besides writing contemporary, erotic, paranormal and romantic suspense, she writes science fiction and fantasy, and science fact. She dreams of living in a warm climate by the ocean where snow is just a word in a dictionary.

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