Two books for the price of one! While Sophie and Jane sink ever lower at the hands of the merciless pirates, the girl who is writing the novel in which they appear is herself exploring the world of BDSM. As Sophie's and Jane's treatment gets ever-harsher, so Julia is drawn deeper and deeper into bondage, pony play and pain. Two doses of the best of SM writing!

Maggie is a successful career woman whose life is relatively calm and fulfilling until a mystery woman accosts her one day and suggests that she dress in a way that she finds scandalous. The mystery woman keeps on appearing and her suggestions become more and more extreme. But strangely enough Maggie finds herself drawn into following the woman’s directions and they lead her into ways that are dark and mysterious indeed. Maggie is confronted with a part of her personality she never knew existed; her dark side.

The year is 1907 and Pixie Garrett has just found out she is penniless. She is forced to take a position on a remote Scottish island and there she finds out that the estate has a bizarre secret. When guests come for the hunting, what they're hunting is not the usual game. This is pony girl action on an epic scale! And where Pixie fits in - if she can't escape - is what she has to find out...

It starts out as a spat between newly weds when they run out of petrol on a lonely road one night. But what follows changes them forever. They call at a house and are offered hospitality that goes way beyond anything they could have imagined. Both Toni and Brad are drawn in and fascinated by the complex webs of dominance and submission they find at the house.

From the day that Jane gets the long-awaited summons to attend upon the man she wants as her Master, she sets out on a journey to self-discovery. Everything is a test and any slight failure is punished. And as she struggles to make herself the perfect slave for him, she knows that at the end she must face the ultimate test; the one they call the Cradle of Pain.