Living with her father at Rylands, their Georgian mansion in rural England, Katrina Mandell has it all: youth, beauty, a privileged lifestyle and a burgeoning career as an actress. Her life could hardly be more idyllic…until one evening during a cocktail reception at Rylands, she stumbles upon her father's partner, billionaire entrepreneur and ultimate hedonist Armand Leveq in his guest bedroom with her beautiful stepmother, Marguerite. Through the partly open bedroom door, Katrina witnesses a sado-masochistic encounter between the two, in which Armand subjects the willing Marguerite to a variety of sexual excesses. The experience stuns and appalls Katrina, while at the same time paradoxically planting in her a dark seed of arousal, which, although she has no way of knowing then, will in time grow and flourish. Two years later, she learns from Armand that her father has been systematically siphoning money from their joint business, she agrees to indenture herself body and soul to Armand for six months in return for his not reporting the matter to the police. In the weeks that follow, Katrina's life changes beyond all recognition. Beginning with a journey by land, sea and air – an erotic odyssey in itself - she is transported to Armand's chateau on a remote Caribbean island, where she is placed in the charge of the all powerful Christina SIN and her profligate associates. Part slave, part house guest, Katrina is tilted headlong into a world of unselfconscious debauchery in which submission, humiliation, pain and exquisite bisexual pleasure eventually become indistinguishable…