Permission to Submit

By Raven Silvers

18+ only

She spent eighteen years learning to disappear. He'll spend six months teaching her to be seen.

Claire Bender is invisible.
At thirty-nine, she's mastered the art of fading into the background-the dutiful wife, the devoted mother, the woman who puts everyone else first until there's nothing left of herself. Her marriage is adequate. Her life is adequate. She is slowly, quietly, dying of adequacy.

Then she walks into an interview with Peter Vandermeer. Twenty years old. Self-made billionaire CEO. Eyes that see through every mask she's built. He offers her a job-and something more. Something that starts with a single command: "Bend over and pick them up. Don't kneel. Bend."

What begins as an impossible attraction becomes an education in surrender. Peter doesn't just want Claire's obedience. He wants her awakening. Every rule, every punishment, every whispered "good girl" strips away another layer of the woman she pretended to be, revealing someone she never knew existed.

But Claire has a husband who trusts her. Children who need her. A life that can't accommodate the desperate, hungry creature she's becoming.

Permission to Submit is a scorching dark romance about identity, desire, and the terrifying freedom of surrender.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF96NX1W
• ISBN13: 9798242701144
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"