Lindsay Ross, author of Mortification of Isabel and other titillating tales of erotica, created a masterful collection of Femdom short stories with Women with the Whiphand. In The Merciless Nurse, highly paid soccer star, Steve Wilson, breaks his leg in a match and is confined to his apartment. His misery is increased by the fact that his estranged girlfriend, Cheryl, wants nothing to do with him; in essence, he has no one to coddle him. Steve hires a foreign nurse, Zusa, and contemplates her performing intimate acts of care and attention. He thinks his life is starting to look up. When he lets it slip he is thinking of her this way, Zusa is greatly offended. She takes revenge by giving him repeated enemas and forces him to make a confessional video which she threatens to send to the media if he does not surrender to her. Forced Into Petticoats introduces us to Tom Lawson while he is trespassing nude on Lady Brentford’s estate. He is caught by her ladyship’s two daughters of about the same age as he. Tom is whipped on his bare buttocks by both girls, Caroline and Vicky, before spending a night in the stocks, still naked, where he is beaten and sexually abused.

Martin Groves, a twenty six year old 'love rat', has been cheating on his wife Kirsty for nearly three years. When she finally discovers his infidelity, she throws him out and Martin lands at a B&B run by Emma, an officer in the local prison. While his new landlady is pleasant enough, Martin quickly learns that her husband left her for a barmaid, and she's become particularly hostile to men. When she assigns her new boarder a number of domestic chores, he willingly agrees. And so begins Emma's deliberate scheme to make Martin her slavish houseboy. With a strong fixation for the female sex, Martin easily relents to the woman's demands, and he's soon turned into her groveling slave. Though she can be a hard and demanding mistress, a strong, even affectionate, bond develops between the two. Martin is soon a fixture in Emma's female world, where he's humiliated, punished and trained to sexually service his mistress and her many female friends. The Prison Governor, Vanessa, uses him as a party toy, then later a sadistic male guard will force him to suck cock and take it in the ass. He'll be subjected to female wrestlers, a sailor and his horny crew, and extensive pony training that will prove to one of his most horrific trials.

When Lord Thomas Pelton falls ill, he's secretly imprisoned by his Head Butler Edward Mundey in an upstairs room at Colesworth Hall. Edward gains access to Lord Pelton's money and, once assuming his master's identity, spends it lavishly by visiting gaming houses and brothels in London where he aims to satisfy his desire to whip naked girls. Soon, Pelton's wife, Lady Alex, makes it clear she wants Edward to replace her husband in every respect, including duties in the bedroom. With Alex declaring herself to be a wayward creature much in need of discipline, Edward is only too happy to oblige. He humiliates and defiles his former mistress, treating her like an animal, first a sow 'Hannah Hamhock' and then a dog, 'Mixie'. While Lord Pelton languishes in his prison with only his decadent memories for company, the impostor enters a pact with a brothel Madam to set up an exclusive club called the Flagellant Fraternity of the Twisted Thongs where activities are centred on a torture chamber the two have designed and built at Colesworth Hall. A bevy of randy tarts will find that there's much pleasure and pain to be had at the stinging end of a brutal whip. Among the many caged girls provided to the Fraternity is the redhaired beauty Emma. She is soon bought by one of the members and sold into slavery, ending up on a plantation in a far off country. Then later, in another twisted scheme to dominate Lady Alex, she's taken to the Abbey of the Christian Martyrs where she undergoes severe mortification of the flesh. How long can Mundey rule his demented kingdom is anyone's guess. But in a world where immoral schemes prevail, it's a sure bet that nothing will stay the same for long.

The lovely young Isabel is far too naivefor her own good. When she takes a position as a livein assistant to Laurence Povey, a former adventurer, who was blinded in a terrible accident, she believes she'll be writing down his memoirs. Instead she records a shocking narrative about the selfmortification of nuns a racy work of fiction. After suffering through this indelicate tale, it's not surprising when the eccentric Povey spanks her for being tardy to one of their sessions. But what awaits the frightened Isabel doesn't end there. She discovers the real purpose of her employment late one night when the kindly housekeeper Margaret leads her into a ghastly dungeon beneath the house. Much to her horror and despair, she finds that this is her new home. Not only will she suffer harsh abuse in this dreadful place, she's to be turned into her master's guide dog, a perfectly obedient puppy! Laurence Povey's aide, John, takes on 'Bella's training. She's forced to crawl on all fours, sleep in a cage and relieve herself in the straw, just like a common dog. She's flogged for any transgression, suffering brutal punishments, then is quickly introduced to the pleasures of the flesh, culminating in the loss of her virginity. Now the master's pet, she serves at his command, offering up her body for both sexual pleasure and the hard abuse from her sadistic master. She becomes nothing but a play toy for Povey and his band of fellow sadists. Though repeatedly shamed and humiliated, strong urges to surrender herself to the defilement rise up unbidden in the once innocent Isabel, as each new twist in her tainted life propels her deeper into submission. Certainly not for the timid reader! But one to savor for those who enjoy sadomasochistic sexuality in a historical setting where such carnal devilry abounds! Soon the whole area of my bottom would be suffused with pain and I would sink into the sublime state I craved. In this state I was no longer Isabel Dance. I became a nameless thing existing only so that John had a female body to punish. It was the only purpose I served and it was sufficient. I counted myself fortunate that of all the women John could have used he chose my pale flesh on which to practise the potent alchemy of the flagellant's art.

The lovely Chrissie and Susannah are lured into a world of submission and servitude. They’re to be trained as human canines, subjected to a strict regimen, profound humiliation and a unique breeding program. Susannah is sent by her parents to the Septimus Grey Academy where corporal punishment is part of the curriculum, meanwhile Chrissie is seduced by the dishy Andy Scates, who makes this willing young woman crawl at his feet, call him master and submit to other men. When Andy moves the dominant Emma into his flat, she quickly becomes "Mistress Emma" to the surrendering Chrissie. As the painstaking training continues, their passion for submission is about to take some shocking turns. Soon, they'll be no more than canine bitches who serve for the amusement of the masters and mistresses that own them.