Bdsm books with a fantasy/supernatural element

[Amanda]

This might be a bit of a stretch but does anyone have any suggestions?

Many years ago I read a book called Black Rose (or was it The/A Black Rose) by a woman called Jacqueline ???? (I don't remember her last name) that had a fantasy objective, (create the black rose and through it gain dominion over the world,) but didn't really have anything supernatural throughout. Does anyone know of any?

[Amanda]

*correction

The Black Rose by Josephine Jarmaine.

[Mandie]

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (pseudonym of Anne Rice), which now has a fourth book (Beauty's Kingdom) releasing in April of this year, is my ultimate suggestion. It is not for the faint of heart. I haven't read the two books up for discussion this month, but this series is about as hardcore as you can get.

Besides that, I suggest the Twilight series (wayyyy before Stephenie Meyer's) by Maggie Shayne, the Dark series by Christine Feehan, and an anthology of vampire erotica, edited by Poppy Z. Brite, known as "Love in Vein." I believe there may be a second "Love in Vein" as well.

[PointyEars42]

I don't know if the contents are any good, but for the title alone:
Telepaths Don't Need Safewords and Other Stories from the Erotic Edge of SF/Fantasy

[Casey]

Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series fits this description.

[Dara]

Tor has a post for you. SFF Sexier than 50 SoG.

The Siren and the Sword by Cecilia Tan
Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
Lost Girls: Book One by Alan Moore
Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rice

The article link has more on each book.

[Cas]

I'm nervous to try the sleeping beauty ones. What kind of trigger warning am I looking at here? I don't do well with blood, general grossness... And rape. But then again, do many people?

[Amanda]

Thank you everyone for such a great list... I'll get started on that today.

p.s just to ruin your childhoods:
http://smartnash.com/50-shades-of-dis...

[Jocelyn]

Cas wrote: "I'm nervous to try the sleeping beauty ones. What kind of trigger warning am I looking at here? I don't do well with blood, general grossness... And rape. But then again, do many people?"

There are varying degrees of consent throughout that series, but as I recall (and mind you, I read it *years* ago), there was no outright rape. But it does brush close, so if you're sensitive to that topic, definitely give it a pass.

As for blood, it didn't fetishize it, but it was present.

If you've got trigger issues, I'd suggest getting Anne Rice's "Exit to Eden", instead. The woman is in the driver's seat throughout, it's a femme domme book, and all the lines of consent are really explicit. No rape in that book, and nothing that felt like it came too close to rape for my comfort.

A lot of stuff by Delphine Dryden is also very good, and is very explicitly consentual, if you're looking for something more recent. Her stuff has male Doms.