Six months after her husband Erik's death in a plane crash, the lovely Laney still wears the bracelet that he gave her before his death. With Property of the Marquis inscribed on the platinum band, the bracelet demands her willing sexual submission to those in the Marquis' circle. With every touch of the shiny band, she's reminded of the vacation three years before, when she and her friends Sandra and Elise were stranded on the deserted Marquis Island. Aided by the shocking Marquis' Book of Pleasure, they were turned into sex slaves bound, whipped, used and branded with their husbands' marks. For Laney and Erik, the bracelet became an extension of their Dom sub relationship. Now she's determined to find the anonymous Marquis. She returns to Marquis Island and steals the Book of Pleasure and the Marquis' revealing diary. From there, Laney travels to Paris for a run-in with a punishing bookseller. Then she moves on to Prague where she's kidnapped, taken to a country house, and is interrogated and sexually tormented by the Marquis' enemies. She's later drugged, beaten, exhibited, publicly fucked and arrested for prostitution. Still she's no closer to finding the Marquis. That is, until her theft of the Marquis' books finally comes back to haunt her. Only when she's punished for this crime will the man who owns her take charge of his property. A suspenseful journey into the arcane and seductive world of masters and slaves and into the leather underground, where with every turn there are missteps to be made and much to atone for, much to which this wanting submissive must surrender.