Spoonful of Sugar: Notes on Surrender

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. In this raw, literary erotic novel, a cynical, fiercely independent woman in her forties meets a man who awakens desires she's spent a lifetime burying. Jayson is controlled, successful, and hiding a secret that, for him, has shattered everything. But instead of a problem to be fixed, his "failure" becomes the axis of their intimacy—a slow, torturous dance of orgasm control, denial, and unexpected tenderness. Told in a voice that is by turns vulnerable, furious, and achingly funny, Spoonful of Sugar explores what happens when a woman who has always held the reins discovers she wants to be held—and what it takes to keep choosing each other when the easy scripts of sex fall away. No easy resolutions. Just the messy, erotic, transformative work of healing through desire. Read more