Meet Lydia Warlow, the main character of my upcoming erotic short story Bliss. Lydia is thirty, runs her own department within her marketing firm, and can hang with all the crazy kids in her highly competitive field because she has a weekly ritual: Friday night dates with her Dom.

While she’s a total hard-ass in the workplace, she’s a near perfect submissive in the bedroom. Lydia is career-oriented and totally fine with it. Family, kids, the white picket fence are all out until she conquers the business world, but she’s grateful to have something she can do weekly to get out all the stress. To her, being dominated is like having a great massage. In Lydia’s opinion, it’s why she hasn’t spiraled out like some of her peers.