Releasing Rage does have some BDSM elements. Joan and Rage form a submissive-dominant relationship. Joan submits (when it pleases her) to Rage. When they first meet, she kneels before him. As his engineer (or handler, as Rage calls her), it is her responsibility to care for him, to serve him.
Joan calls Rage ‘sir’, as many subs call their doms. However, she uses this term because they live on a military battle station. Higher ranking officers in the military are often called ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’. Rage is much older than Joan is (cyborgs have a very long lifespan). He has more experience and is seen as more valuable. She would call him ‘sir.’
Their relationship doesn’t have the physical pain element that many readers enjoy in BDSM stories. Rage has suffered so much pain in his life. He would never afflict it on a female he cared for. However, pain isn’t a necessary part of a BDSM relationship.
Safewords, however, ARE a necessary part of a healthy BDSM relationship. Talking about limits, about rules, is also key. These are so important that I feel any story that doesn’t contain these elements shouldn’t be viewed as being representative of the subgenre and the community. I would be devastated if any reader picked up Releasing Rage and used it to craft her own BDSM relationship.
As cyborgs are warriors, rough, tough males more accustomed to violence than kindness, I suspect many of my future stories in this series will have BDSM elements. In Breathing Vapor, there are some spanking scenes (as pain allows Mira, the heroine, to express her emotions). In Crash and Burn, Crash likes to restrain his reckless heroine.
But these relationships will be unique to the characters and not representative of the present day BDSM community or a healthy present day BDSM relationship.
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Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.
When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?
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