Thrale House

The membership is women; the men are attached to them by written agreement — terms drafted, limits named, every consequence in writing. Ottoline Barrow keeps the register, and she has never once had to raise her voice. At Thrale House control is competence, protocol is intimacy, and the paperwork is not the admin around the romance. It is the romance.

The men who come to the house are formidable in the world: a long-haul captain who has never once set a weight down, an engineer called in to find what the drawings did not say, an interpreter who lives three seconds behind other people's sentences. Each of them chooses to kneel — and has to keep choosing it. The women they attach to lead, and want to: a drafter who can name any limit but her own want, a conductor who rules every cue in the room but one.

An exacting, slow, open-door female-led romance series — praise earned and rationed, stops honoured instantly and without question, and control that never has to get loud. For fans of Tiffany Reisz and Cara McKenna.

Each book is a complete interconnected standalone with a different couple and a guaranteed HEA. Read in any order.