
Since she was eighteen, Dee Moreland Taylor has survived everything alone. She micromanages her small business, her virginity, and her relationships with anyone who might get too close, including her newlywed husband Eric, and especially God.
Now in her mid-40s in rural Kentucky, Dee's life is spiraling without her permission. Drowning in debt, navigating menopause, and trying to hold herself up to scripture's standards as a late-in-life wife, she makes a calculated trade: she'll train Eric for an elite ultramarathon using the one thing she's always controlled: sex. But when injury sidelines their training, her sexual awakening stalls. Dee is alone again, faced with her own desire, and no guide for what comes next.
SUBMIT is a debut novel about a woman caught between trauma, purity culture, and menopause — and what it means to surrender to faith.
Coming June 2026
Stage of Grace Press is an independent literary publisher based in Los Angeles.
We publish the books mainstream publishers won't. Stories that don't fit in one box, from authors who don't either.
Our debut title, SUBMIT by Natasha Lewin, is available June 2026.
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Stage of Grace began in 2023 by awarding grants to playwrights of color whose work reckons with faith.
Past recipients include Rodney Gardiner, whose Smote This, A Comedy About God ...and Other Serious $H*T premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2023 and went on to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2024, returning for the 2026 season, and Italome Ohikhuare's award-winning Mermaid, which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2024.
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