Lalitha's fate is pre-ordained. Trained for the exclusive pleasure of the male sex, she is destined to be sold as a plaything to the libertines of the Hell Fire Club. There, in the caves of debauchery, the instruments of pleasure - and pain - await her soft and compliant flesh.
But highwayman Nick Culpepper has other plans for the maid with the violet eyes. And though their future together encompasses the cruelties of transportation to Botany Bay, the chains that bind them are forged in the fire of erotic compulsion. For Lalitha, there is no alternative but submission . . .