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The velvet bond

by Lacey Borel
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781105611315
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 172
  • Original Price: GBP 15.13
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 413 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Family / Marriage & Divorce

The Ribbons Trilogy: The Velvet Bond A Novel of Trauma, Desire, and Chosen Surrender Genre: Literary Fiction / Erotic Romance / Trauma Recovery Narrative Core Premise: A marriage rebuilt from violence learns to speak the language of desire-one napkin, one rope knot, one negotiated surrender at a time. Synopsis Hailiegh Fontenot-Miller, thirty-seven, survivor of federal cases and intimate terrorism, has spent two years being carefully loved by Aaron Miller-the man who bullied her at six, testified against her abuser at twenty, and married her at thirty-five. Their reconciliation is complete. Their safety is established. Their napkin rules-No locked doors. Phones face-down. Ask before you touch.-have preserved them. But safety has become its own cage. When Aaron discovers Hailiegh's 3 AM searches-BDSM for trauma survivors, rope bondage safety, how to tell partner you want to be tied up-he faces a choice: retreat into careful distance, or learn to hold the power she is asking to give him. He chooses the latter. What follows is a year of radical negotiation: two napkins, twelve contract pages, copper coins that pass consent between palms, and the slow, courageous translation of survival into sovereignty. Part One: The Archaeology excavates their buried desires-the searches, the fantasies, Dr. Voss's trauma-informed guidance, the tools of trust they forge before touching. Part Two: The Practice enacts what they negotiated-rope learned on pillows then applied to wrists, blindfolds that reclaim darkness from her abuser, commands tender enough to obey, pain that illuminates rather than damages. Part Three: The Integration transforms scene into structure: the switch that lets Aaron surrender, the marks they document and burn, the ordinary power exchange of a day given and received, the anniversary that honors survival by releasing its evidence to ash, the crows that witness their becoming, and finally-the conversation with their son that makes their private practice publicly accountable. The trilogy ends where it began: with a penny. 1977. The year Hailiegh learned to survive. The year she finally learns to live. Key Themes Theme Exploration Consent as Architecture Not a moment but a structure-negotiated, documented, revised, burned, and rebuilt Trauma-Informed BDSM Reparative attachment: using power exchange to reclaim agency, not replicate abuse The Switch Mutual vulnerability; dominance and submission as rotating roles, not fixed identities Radical Visibil

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