Esme Ombreux: 5 books

To the unititated, Hillingbury seems much like any other dormitory home-counties suburb, but to the residents its a sexual playground of domination and submission. The women who run the social scene also run their submissives - or 'pets' - ragged. In the social pecking order, sexual domination equal...

Fetishism and initiation are the central themes of this story in which Eloise Highfield embarks on a series of extreme experiments with a painter of erotic subjects. Meanwhile her charge, Anne, is keeping a diary of what goes on.

When the sensations finally ceased Tess heard La Patronne saying, 'You see, my dear? Jem is never wrong. Tess will flourish in my little house.' 'I have to agree,' the Chatelaine said, 'She is yours. For the time being, I assume I may punish her again before you take her away from Paris? You...

Amid the vast acres of the Private House estate live the forest dwellers, led by the beautiful Talia, who is enthralled by a newcomer to the forest: a Whipmaker to whose discipline she readily submits. As the regime in the forest becomes ever more severe, the forest dwellers abduct Anne, the Mistress's youngest pupil, and a struggle begins for mastery of the Private House itself.

Jem Darke, A Mistress of the Private House, is bored. So bored that she rashly accepts a challenge to submit to the harsh discipliary regime at the Chateau, where the Chatelaine and her depraved minions will delight in administering torments and humiliaton designed to make Jem abandon the wager and...