Property of the Marquis

Six months after her husband Erik's death in a plane crash, the lovely Laney
still wears the bracelet that he gave her before his death. With Property of
the Marquis inscribed on the platinum band, the bracelet demands her willing
sexual submission to those in the Marquis' circle. With every touch of the
shiny band, she's reminded of the vacation three years before, when she and
her friends Sandra and Elise were stranded on the deserted Marquis Island.
Aided by the shocking Marquis' Book of Pleasure, they were turned into sex
slaves bound, whipped, used and branded with their husbands' marks. For Laney
and Erik, the bracelet became an extension of their Dom/sub relationship. Now
haunted by that memory and determined to find the anonymous Marquis, Laney
returns to Marquis Island. Not only does she steal the Book of Pleasure and
the Marquis' diary from the library, her guide, a seemingly humble fisherman,
Alex Greenwood, turns into a formidable dominant, who knows a good deal more
about the bracelet and Marquis than she first suspected. Now, with a vague
idea of the Marquis' whereabouts, Laney travels to Paris for a runin with a
brusque and punishing bookseller. Then on a trip to Prague, the rule of the
bracelet forces her to submit to a sexy couple on the train. In Prague, Laney
is kidnapped, taken to a country house, where she's interrogated and sexually
tormented by the Marquis' enemies. She's drugged, beaten, exhibited, publicly
fucked and arrested for prostitution. And still she's no closer to finding the
Marquis. That is, until her theft of the Marquis' books finally comes back to
haunt her. Only when she's punished for this crime will the man who owns her
take charge of his property. Only then can she fulfill the promise she made to
her husband when she first agreed to wear the band that would make her subject
forever to the rules of masters. A suspenseful journey into the arcane and
seductive world of masters and slaves and into the leather underground, where
with every turn there are missteps to be made and much to atone for, much to
which this wanting submissive must surrender.