An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women.

This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the to begin Anne Rice’s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a key and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like globe of the Castle. Distributed at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of “the town,” as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is usually turned to the brazenly handsome Captain from the Guard. As soon as again Rice’s fantastic tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore probably the most primal and well-hidden wishes of the individual heart.

Read simply by Genvieve Bevier and Winthrop Eliot.