Bøger i Mistress & Master of Restraint serien

Jaded, thy name is Regina Regal. Enduring a trial by fire, she will be Queened. Regina Regal wavers between apathetic and destructive because she's numb inside and out. Lost in a sea of ennui, she goes through the motions of everyday life but never truly lives. Happiness is a foreign concept. In the absence of numbness is pain- a pain so agonizing she would rather stick her head in the sand than feel the devastating loss of the father of her children. Thrust from Misery Castle, not only losing Grant, she leaves her first born behind. In the ashes of her despair, Regina creates a family for her daughter. But as her eyes open wide, she realizes everything is built on an illusion. Betrayed. Abandoned. Grieving yet filled with guilt, Regina finally comes to the realization that she has been toyed with as a pawn in a sadistic game Dominion's founders have played since before she ever set foot into Hillbrook. Every move she has made has been orchestrated by the very people she has grown to love and trust. Restraint draws Regina into a whole new world- one that has been at her fingertips but she was too blind to see. Forced with the task to choose between love and self-respect, Regina learns how if you feel empowered while you're on your knees, no one can tear you down when you're standing firmly on your own two feet.

For the past four years, Dalton Fontaine Marconi has been living incognito as Dalton Thompson. After his grandfather's murder, Dalton's self-preservation led him to Dominion, New York. As Restraint's resident antagonist, Dalton has been doing his mother's bidding. Olivia Fontaine always wants something from someone, and she always uses her son to get it. In order to deal with the ramifications, Dalton finds comfort in the fact that he's doing it for altruistic reasons. But thinking it and feeling it are not the same beast, and the pressure is suffocating him. As a masochist, Dalton balances on a knife's edge between self-punishment and the point of no return. Restraint was plagued with riots, leading the rest of Dalton's family to Dominion, and together they set out to protect the Masters of Restraint. But as Restraint crumbles down to its foundation, Dalton's life does as well. While trying to hide his true nature, Dalton pushes the members of Restraint, oddly finds Pretty Boy Whittenhower taking a shine to him, joins Generation Next, and tries to locate the mole leaking the information published in the Mistress & Master of Restraint books. Walking down a lonely path of alienation, Dalton discovers those he's trying to protect are actually protecting him from the very monster who set it all into motion.

Rags to Riches... The queen is not born- she is forged through survival. You've read the Mistress and Master of Restraint series in present day. Join Regina Regal nineteen years in the past to where it all began with Jaded. Even as a scholarship student, Regina Regal is the brightest at Hillbrook Prep, causing her to straddle two extremes between the destitute class she dwells in and the affluent she visits daily. Neither of which welcomes her with open arms, forcing her to choose between her people and her friends. While dealing with insurmountable loss, Regina has more burdens placed upon her shoulders than the average adult could carry. With her mother dying, Regina has a difficult time crossing the line from caregiver to daughter in order to have both her mother's and her own emotional needs met. Regina is struggling to keep her head above water as she takes on more debt from her mother's mounting medical bills and living expenses, only to realize she is drowning. At eighteen, with a college scholarship guaranteeing she will join the ranks of her one-percenter classmates, Regina should have the world at her fingertips. Since she was young, Regina has been the provider, creating a young woman who has the need to survive and a hunger to be in control. But she finds herself falling apart, making horrible decisions that have lifelong consequences. Regina Regal's life changes irrevocably when her best friend, Adelaide, invites her to study at the imposing Whittenhower Estates. Going against her instincts, Regina is compelled to visit Misery Castle. The girl who entered Misery Castle's iron gate will not be the jaded woman who flees it almost five years later...