Songs of Submission Books in Order
Part ofCD Reiss Books in OrderSee the Songs of Submission books by CD Reiss in order, with quick summaries, reading help, and background on her breakout Jonathan and Monica saga.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Beg
by CD Reiss
2013
Monica thinks Jonathan Drazen is a short-term temptation, three nights at most. But one wager is enough to pull her straight into the kind of desire that does not stay casual.
Burn
by CD Reiss
2013
Distance and restraint become the new battlefield. Even when Jonathan is close, Monica can feel him slipping away, and wanting him hurts in a whole new way.
Control
by CD Reiss
2013
Monica is in free fall under Jonathan's full attention, and there is no safe distance left between them. The deeper the surrender goes, the more complicated everything becomes.
Domination
by CD Reiss
2013
This collected middle arc pushes Jonathan and Monica's relationship into deeper emotional and sexual territory. Love sharpens, control slips, and the outside world starts to hit back.
Resist
by CD Reiss
2013
Monica believes Jonathan, forgives him, and loves him with everything she has. But with danger closing in, devotion may not be enough to guarantee them a tomorrow.
Sing
by CD Reiss
2013
Jonathan is suddenly no longer the untouchable man Monica leaned on, and their story takes its hardest turn. This installment trades easy heat for fear, loyalty, and raw survival.
Submission
by CD Reiss
2013
This first collected volume introduces Monica, Jonathan, and the wager that changes everything. What starts as a night under his command turns into something much more consuming.
Submit
by CD Reiss
2013
Jonathan finally says what Monica has been trying not to hear, that she is his. Desire and fear rise together as their arrangement stops feeling temporary.
Tease
by CD Reiss
2013
Monica tells herself she can handle Jonathan before he dumps her first. The problem is that every encounter makes the game hotter, deeper, and harder to control.
Dominance
by CD Reiss
2014
This alternate collected edition drops readers into one of the darker, more controlling stretches of Jonathan and Monica's story. Obsession, surrender, and emotional risk all hit harder here.
Breathe
by CD Reiss
2015
This bonus Jonathan and Monica novella fits into the space after a hard-won reunion and before their next step together. It is short, intimate, and full of the rough heat that defines them.
Coda
by CD Reiss
2015
Jonathan and Monica survived the worst, but happily ever after is not simple for them. This final installment deals with the aftermath, the fear, and the work of finding each other again.
Connection
by CD Reiss
2015
This collected volume covers the final major arc of Jonathan and Monica's story. Love is no longer the question, surviving what has happened to them is.
Sing / Coda
by CD Reiss
2015
This pairing gathers the darkest and most emotional stretch of Jonathan and Monica's saga. Crisis, recovery, and the cost of lasting love all hit hard here.
Series background & context
Songs of Submission is the series most closely tied to C.D. Reiss's breakout as a romance writer, and it still feels like the center of her connected universe. The story follows Monica Faulkner, a struggling musician, and Jonathan Drazen, a wealthy, damaged dominant who is used to control in every part of life. It begins in short installments, Beg, Tease, and Submit, and that serial shape gives the early books a restless, addictive pace.
The hook is obvious, but the staying power comes from the characters.
Jonathan is powerful, exacting, and never especially safe in the emotional sense. Monica is younger, broke, talented, and much harder to push around than he expects. Their relationship starts with a wager and a power exchange, but the books would not have lasted if that was all there was. Reiss keeps asking what trust means when desire is this intense, and what love looks like when both people are carrying the kind of damage that does not vanish after one good confession.
As the series moves through Control, Burn, Resist, Sing, and Coda, the scale gets bigger. Family pressure, emotional fallout, health crises, and the realities of long-term partnership start crowding the fantasy. That is part of why the series has held up for readers. It is not only about kink. It is about what happens after obsession becomes attachment and attachment has to survive ordinary life, or something close to ordinary for these two.
There are also later bundled editions, Submission, Domination, and Connection, which collect the original arcs under newer titles. A bonus novella like Breathe fits into that same ongoing world. So readers can come at the story a couple of ways, but the core remains Monica and Jonathan, and the complicated language they build between surrender and love.
This series is hot, intense, and very adult.
It is also more emotional than outsiders sometimes expect. If you want the place where the Drazen world starts, and the relationship that echoes through so many of Reiss's later books, Songs of Submission is the one to read.
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