The erotic novel that took the nation by storm Behind a facade of cultured respectability lies a world of decadent indulgence & dark eroticism. Cassandras sheltered life is transformed when she gets employed as governess to the Barons children in a grand house in Hampstead. He draws her into games where lust can feed on the erotic charge of submission. Games where only he knows the rules & where unusual pleasures can flourish.