It had been the happiest year in Linda’s young life, the year she became Manfred Owen’s slave. Her life was a delirious round of whippings, spankings, canings, tight bondage and mindblowing sex. But beyond that she loved the idea of being subject to his control and authority 247, of having to follow his rules and endure his punishments for disobedience. But now she was about to learn the down side of being someone else’s property. For when Manny suddenly has to leave on a long business trip, he decides to leave her in the custody of Scott, his friend and business partner, investing him with all his authority as her Master. On being told this, she is dismayed, as Scott has always regarded her coolly, and she is convinced he dislikes her. But when she became Manny’s “property” she had pledged total obedience to him and had agreed to surrender all her rights. She had even signed a “contract” to that effect. More determined than ever to show her obedience, she enters Scott’s home unprotestingly. Once there, Linda must endure the indignity of becoming his personal maid, as well as the periodic “maintenance spankings” that Manny had insisted upon. That Scott is not into S&M himself and is only administering the spankings to accommodate his friend only makes the situation the more humiliating for her. Soon events take a sinister turn when Linda is introduced to Scott’s new girlfriend Victoria, a domineering, bisexual lawyer with a secret spanking obsession. At first Scott tries to conceal the situation, but when Victoria at last learns of Linda’s true status, she longs to use her to fulfill her cruel fantasies. Then fate intervenes when Scott is suddenly called away by a family emergency, giving Victoria the control she longs for, an opportunity she is determined to make use of to the full. Accustomed to serving a loving Master, Linda must now suffer the rule of a harsh Mistress, one who will test her powers of obedience to the breaking point. Languishing through the punishment given to her by Victoria, Linda has no idea where or with whom her fate lays. She only knows she desires Manny and his kinder ruling hand. Will Linda have to subject herself to more of Victoria’s grating discipline or will Scott return to put a stop to it? Will Manny ever return to take back what is his?

“When she finally did move in with him, he first had her sign a paper, in the form of a contract, under which she agreed to become his slave, to surrender all her rights to him, and to obey him unconditionally; furthermore she agreed in advance to submit to any punishment he might care to inflict in the event of disobedience.” In the spring of 1975 Eve Sloan, a twentytwo year old college dropout, was living in a shabby tenement apartment in New York’s East Village, workings days as a clerk in a bookstore while her nights were occupied with casual sex, drugs and writing bad poetry. One day in a Soho gallery she is accosted by Roger Nettles, a wealthy venture capitalist, with whom she ends up having sex in her apartment. Roger, an experienced dominant, quickly sizes her up as a born submissive and proceeds to introduce her to spanking and bondage, to which she responds enthusiastically. Increasingly dissatisfied with her aimless existence while experiencing ecstatic pleasures unknown before, she accepts his offer to come live with him as his slave, agreeing to accept a life of total dependence in which she has no rights of her own but an absolute obligation to submit to all of her Master’s desires. As the livein companion of a wealthy man she is forced to abandon her bohemian ways and is thrust awkwardly into fashionable society, where she becomes known as a great beauty. In the course of her threeyear odyssey she encounters a variety of colorful characters the university professor who teaches history by day and conducts sadomasochistic orgies by night, a dominatrix doctor, a rock drummer with a spanking fetish, a fashion photographer she poses for and who lusts after her, the slave girl with the fragile ego whom she befriends and tries to protect, and Olympia, Roger’s former lover and now bitter business rival, who guesses her secret life and uses it to torment her. Eve’s adventures include being a guest at a dinner party of sadomasochists in which the maid is caned, participating in a spanking party and in a terrifying orgy with two other slave girls. But she finds her greatest pleasures when alone with her Master in his luxury apartment, in his bed, or over his knee, or bound naked to a cross or a bench in the room he has turned into his own private dungeon. In time though, even these pleasures are not enough, for what she craves most of all is to be truly loved by her moody workobsessed Master. When she comes to feel neglected, she is finally driven to rebel, provoking a crisis that will end up changing her life forever.

Julie’s Master, Alex, is in trouble his small ecommerce business is failing. In desperation, he turns to wealthy investor and fellow kinkster Thomas Blaine, who agrees to extend a lifesaving loan on condition Alex puts up his slave as collateral. Out of loyalty to her Master, Julie agrees to live with Blaine as his slave for six months until the loan is repaid. The change proves a difficult one for Julie. In contrast to the easygoing Alex, Blaine is a harsh and demanding Master with an elaborate set of rules, which he doesn’t hesitate to enforce by means of his favorite instrument, the cane. Humiliating rituals and rough anal sex add to her travails. But gradually she adjusts to his ways and through his extreme dominance comes to experience a deeper, more profound level of submission than she had ever known before. Yet she also misses the intimacy and easy giveandtake of her relationship with Alex. Julie’s horizons are further expanded when she is introduced to Blaine’s sculptor friend Slater and his beautiful slave Nicole, a selfstyled bondage and pain slut who is also bisexual. Nicole is a fascinating young woman who grew up in Europe and is a talented painter. The two become fast friends, later participating together with another girl in an extreme BDSM/sex orgy. But as the end of Julie’s sixmonth term approaches, she finds herself in a quandary. Blaine's charisma and glamorous lifestyle have come to exercise a powerful hold over her, yet she wonders if she can accept living permanently in a relationship of such radical inequality and extreme submission. Nor can she forget the old ties of affection and loyalty binding her to Alex. Looming above everything is the question of the loan will Alex be able to repay it and how that will impact her decision? Indeed, will the decision even be hers to make? Or will it be the two Masters together who ultimately decide her fate?