Owned — Allyson Young

Maurice Alain sometimes works the door at Club Pleasure. He's known as a hard Dom, in demand with the pain sluts. But he's putting in time, watching and waiting, hoping to find his One, a twenty-four-seven submissive. Susan Peterson has given up her career to care for her dying mother. She works doggedly to pay all the bills that have mounted, exhausted and alone. Shaped by an ineffectual, cruel father, her self-worth damaged, unable to trust men in vanilla relationships, she is ripe for someone who'll dominate and take care of her, craving predictability and acceptance. The pair meet under circumstances that immediately establish their respective roles. Well suited, their relationship evolves and withstands the usual stumbles because the affiliation is well defined, until Susan is led to believe her Dom requires certain things she isn't capable of giving him. Maurice has claimed Susan, just as he must now claim their unique happily ever after.