For her art, Poppy seeks out and recreates acts of submission and domination. Each sculpture she creates is taken from life – a life of total sensual freedom where she meets a strange cast of extreme lovers. From strangers in restaurants to tattoo artists, from a baroness to a uniformed society of fetishists, Poppy experiences obedience and tastes power. The result is her submission gallery. Where Poppy’s quest for inspiration will finally lead, and to whom, remains a mystery. But behind the scenes of her journey and the art it produces, the world’s most bizarre collector waits to seize the greatest artefact of all – the artist herself.

Lindsay Gordon is a talented and original writer whose books are not only hot and arousing but a good read too.