15 BDSM Romance Books to Keep You Tied Up

This is an older title, but Cecilia Tan is one of the masters of erotic romance, especially those centering BDSM. Ricki is a billionaire heiress who has just inherited an estate that includes a super-exclusive BDSM club. It’s there she meets Axel, an up-and-coming rockstar who strikes a nerve — not just emotionally, but in the way he makes her want to submit. If you’re looking to read about someone coming to terms with being very dominant in the real world but looking to be topped in bed, this is the story for you.

Alex is a heartthrob actor preparing for the role of a lifetime, but he needs some help. Lady Elena is a domme who isn’t interested in being in the public eye. But when she’s hired to help Alex learn about domming, she has to pretend to date him so people don’t know what’s really going on. This should be easy, right? Too bad they’re also incredibly attracted to each other.

This book is a bit of a doorstopper, at nearly 600 pages, but it’s worth it, I promise. Dillon is a dancer whose experience at a strip club’s amateur night led her to pursue it professionally. When she meets Neyla and Abel, her relationship with each of them builds into friendship and possibly something else.

While it’s technically the third book in a series, you can read all three of the Godwicks books individually, and this one hits just as hard as the first two, The Red and The Rose. Tiffany Reisz is another one of those authors who has a lengthy history writing BDSM and erotic romance novels, and this series is the culmination of that talent and history. Lord Arthur Godwick finds himself making an agreement to pay off his brother’s debts in the claimant’s bed. And it all just goes down from there.

If this book’s cover doesn’t draw you in, you don’t have eyes. Aisha runs a dance school that has recently started losing students. Knox is a parent to one of her young students, who covers his attraction with snark and antagonism. When they encounter each other unknowingly at a kink club, something sparks between them, and they might find a future where each of their desires can be properly met.

BDSM in magical and fantasy stories is starting to be more of a thing, especially with two of romance’s current favorite things — monsters and witches. This witchy novel includes a woman who decides to get back at her cheating ex by bewitching his dad. Dax turns out to be a demon, and there is more to both of their stories than we know. But there’s also a murder plot and a magical council to contend with.

Sierra Simone. If there is a name you should know by the end of this, it’s Sierra Simone. A Lesson In Thorns is the first in the Thornchapel series, and it is dark, hot, and intense. Just the way a Sierra Simone book should be. Librarian Poe has come to Thornchapel to work, but she’s also looking for information about the last place her mother was seen alive. And the angst only gets worse from there.

This is another older title, but it really highlights a great relationship between three people, not just as a trio, but one-on-one all three ways. Since it’s older, there’s some tech stuff that might be a little weird to read now, but you’ll hardly notice because the relationship is hot and surprisingly sweet. A pair of doms don’t know what hits them when Grae shows up.

It’s pretty easy to read the three novellas in the Fit trilogy in a day or so. In Fit, Violet is a Los Angeles producer intent upon increasing her fitness level. Group fitness classes and other options, among other things, are anxiety-inducing. But she starts to work with trainer Grant, who is also a dom, and things change for the better, in more ways than one.