Miranda Foster was not a particularly innocent girl. Or so she would have claimed at the time her father's business associate Mr. Chain came into her room and seduced her with such abruptness and forcefulness she could hardly, thereafter believe she had consented to it. He informs her he has arranged with her father, who owes him money, to be his assistant and accompany him to Asia, and will brook no argument, however uncertain. This begins, for Miranda, a shocking journey into sexual submission and obedience as she journeys to old China. This is not the China of modern skyscrapers, but isolated, mysterious China, where men like Chan rule like princes, and where a pretty young English girl learns to revel in the pleasures of the body even as she comes to accept her place in a world of sexual submission and servitude.