Sweet, modest twenty-year-old Anna Greenway has always covered her ears any time her friends tried to talk to her about sex. But the laws of her society have changed in recent years, as Anna discovers when she meets Martin Lourcy, an experienced, handsome man employed by the Institute, whose mission is to train submissive women for sexual service. To her shock, Anna soon learns that Martin has been granted the authority to bring her with him to the Institute to be taught about strict discipline and to have her sexuality awakened and mastered.

When Anna defies him, Martin does not hesitate to bare her bottom and punish her soundly, explaining that from now on she will be expected to obey him in the way she was raised to believe a wife should obey a husband. But Martin will do much more than merely teach her to submit to his every command. He will show Anna the intense pleasure and incredible passion of yielding herself to his skillful, dominant lovemaking, and soon his mastery of her body will be so complete that every hard spanking and blushing climax will only increase her desire for more.

Soon enough, however, Martin realizes that something is quickly going terribly wrong. Anna is obviously falling in love with him, and even worse, he is forced to admit to himself that he is falling in love with her as well. When her training is complete, Martin knows Anna will graduate from the Institute program and be sold to a wealthy, powerful man, but when that day comes will he be able to give up the girl he longs to claim as his own?