<P><B>A reissue of a seductive tale of pleasure and pain</B></P><P>At 23, Megan Stewart feels that there should be more to life than working in a library, so she answers an ad for a post in a country house—and discovers what she has been missing. Handsome Fabrizio Balocchi is far from his Tuscan home and feeling bored, but he instinctively knows that Megan will be a natural player in his games of domination. Step by step, he leads her into a darker world, a world where pleasure is mixed with pain. Now Megan must decide how far she is willing to go in order to stay in Fabrizio's house of decadence.