Madison Hawkins is a 25-year-old working professional who spent the first six months of 2025 reading over 40 romance novels during long commutes. By the end of that June, it felt nearly impossible to find books that checked all her boxes: • The woman is (consistently) the more dominant person in the relationship; • She knows who she is and isn’t at all embarrassed by it; • The man is (consistently) happy to follow her lead; and • It’s not necessarily a BDSM thing, the couple just naturally has that dynamic. While conducting her search, she discovered that she wasn’t alone. There were readers like her looking for similar stories. Naturally, Madison started writing and she hasn’t stopped since. Hawkins’ groundbreaking self-labeled “feminist smut,” is for the romance lovers she calls “the bitchiest of women and the kindest of men.” Her work aims to empower women while setting the bar higher for common men.