Jem is a petite, flame-haired, blue-eyed businesswoman. Lucy, tall, blonde and athletic, is a detective inspector. Julia is the slim, dark, bored wife of a financial speculator. Each arrives separately in the strange, ritualistic, disciplined domain known as the Private House. Once they meet, nothing in the House will be the same again - nothing, that is, except the strict regime of obedience and sexuality.

Drawn from her sheltered life when her housekeeper Tess goes missing. Amanda goes to France in an attempt to find her. During the search Amanda meets Michael, an artist with bizarre sexual tastes who awakens in her a taste for the shameful delights of discipline and introduces her to a secret society of hedonistic perverts who share her unusual desires. Amanda revels in her newfound sexual freedom, voluntarily submitting to extreme indignities of punishment and humiliation, but does not realise until too late the full extent of the society's depraved and perverted plans. Can Tess and Michael save her from the ultimate degradation the society has in store?

The Mistress of the Private House accepts a challenge to submit to the harsh disciplinary regime of the Chateau, where the Chatelaine and her depraved minions will delight in administering torments and humiliations, designed to make her relinquish her supreme authority. Only the Sapphic bond formed between her and the other captives will give them the strength to accept the strict rules of pleasure and pain and win them freedom. A Nexus Classic.

Fetishism and initiation are the central themes of this story in which Eloise Highfield embarks on a series of extreme experiments with a painter of erotic subjects. Meanwhile her charge, Anne, is keeping a diary of what goes on.

Amid the vast acres of the Private House estate live the forest dwellers, led by the beautiful Talia, who is enthralled by a newcomer to the a whipmaker to whose discipline she readily submits. As the regime in the forest becomes ever more severe, the forest dwellers abduct Anne, the Mistress' youngest pupil, and a struggle begins for mastery of the Private House itself. Talia, Anne and Julia, the Misstress' lover, must suffer the extreme indignities in order to defeat the whipmaker's scheme.

When Olena, nubile and much-appreciated guest at the secretive flagellant community that is the Private House, is kidnapped, Supreme Mistress Jem Darke and her lover Julia, chief of the guards, are unusually at a loss as to what to do. But Talia, the fey, submissive but resourceful leader of the forest people, who live a bucolic but perverted life on the Houseø‚€™s large estate, has evidence that leads to Madame la Patronne, Jemø‚€™s rival in the arts of dominance. Jem, Julia, Talia and her lover Anne agree a plan of pursuit. Their actions lead them straight into deep sexual how far will they be required to submit to Madame la Patronne, whose imperious sexuality knows no limits. And even if their tormented odyssey brings them to Oleana, will she even want to return?