Pay Up Buttercup

The narrator's father has fallen into serious debt to one of the most feared men on the East Coast, and he cannot pay it back. She goes to the lender herself and offers to take over the loan. He is not interested in her money. Instead he says he will cancel the debt if she agrees to submit to him, and to do whatever he asks, whenever he asks it. She is unsettled by how intently he watches her, and she cannot tell whether the arrangement frightens her or thrills her. The book is built around a dominant, possessive hero who makes his wishes plain and expects them met, and a heroine who finds she is not as unwilling as she first believed.