Amy Ross, a celebrated art historian, has had many lovers in her lifetime. Again and again she has tasted the sweet ecstasy of sexual fulfilment and erotic depravity. Now, in her later years, she lives as a recluse, blissfully content in her own isolation, an enigma to her friends and admirers.
But Amy has suppressed the memory of her one secret obsession - her love affair with the artist Jarret Sparrow. Their relationship was beyond belief, her love for him dominated her entire life and took her to the furthest limits of carnal desire. Their feelings were too powerful to control - but their love for each other other was ultimately forbidden
Since their separation, Jarret and his manipulative Turkish friend Fee have seduced numerous women in pursuit of their ambition to conquer the art world. And now Jarret is about to re-enter Amy's life. For all those years, Amy had thought it was over. But is she prepared to rekindle the flames of her desire, and at what price . . .?