"I closed my eyes, and began to imagine that the weight of heavy bedclothes above me were the weight of a man upon me, and not just any man, but the man who'd tried to collar me at the station." In a world where women's destinies are rigidly controlled by the state -- they can be either chaste "untouchables" or merely dumb instruments for men's pleasure -- Laura's fantasies are dangerous. Born into a family of wealth and power, she seems condemned to a life as one of the pure untouchables -- married off to any wealthy old man her father chooses for her. But her desires lead her to play perilous games, and one day her path crosses that of Gedder, a young man on the make. Then fate plays a cruel trick on her and her life changes forever. The author of Enslaving Anna once again creates an unforgettably erotic heroine thrown headlong into humiliation beyond even her wildest fantasies.