The Velvet Surrender: A Dark Sapphic Billionaire Romance

She can save her career. The price is surrender. Rhiannon Clarke is running out of time. Her fashion career is collapsing, her rent is overdue, and the studio she sacrificed everything to build is days away from being seized. Then Isolde Lafayette enters her life with an offer Rhiannon can't afford to refuse. Thirty-nine, devastatingly powerful, and worth billions, Isolde lives by rules, contracts, and absolute control. She offers Rhiannon the financial backing that could save everything she's built—but the arrangement comes with terms unlike anything Rhiannon has ever imagined. A private estate. A carefully negotiated contract. A collar. And surrender to a woman who expects obedience. What begins as an agreement between a desperate designer and an enigmatic billionaire soon becomes something far more dangerous. Behind Isolde's flawless control lies a past she refuses to discuss and wounds no contract can contain. And the deeper Rhiannon enters Isolde's world of ritual, submission, and desire, the more she begins to question who truly holds the power between them. Because Rhiannon may be willing to kneel—but she refuses to disappear. As boundaries blur and secrets emerge, Rhiannon begins demanding something Isolde has never allowed anyone else to have: reciprocity. Trust. The freedom to touch the woman behind the armor. And Isolde discovers that surrender may have nothing to do with who wears the collar.