The Baron's Disciplined Governess: Historical Corporal Punishment Erotic Degradation Romance

Brigid Holbrook feels the baron's palm rest against her bare hip as the guardianship papers lie open on the table. Uriah Irvine's low voice has already ordered her skirts lifted in the gray front hall, and the silence holds the threat of what his hand will do next. The crescent mark at her throat darkens under his gaze while she waits, trembling, for the first strike that will bind her to him.

Discovery of this submission could shatter the only home she has claimed and the child's future along with it. Yet the hunger in his measured control draws her deeper into the degradation she both fears and craves.

How far will she let the baron mark her before the cost becomes unbearable?