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Catherine, a blossoming film student whose sexuality has been recently stirred, finds herself drawn into a secret club where the world's most powerful people meet to explore their deepest, often darkest sexual fantasies. But even as these new experiences open intense new pleasures for Catherine, they also threaten to destroy everything she holds dear. In her debut novel, Sasha Grey takes us inside a private, high-profile, sex society where anything and everything can happen.

Meet Maggie, Eva, and Lisa, founders of The Scarlet Letter Society. Named as such due to their various infidelities, both physical and emotional, the SLS is their refusal to be shamed like Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of forbidden longing. Maggie is twice divorced and juggling three lovers - one of whom is her first ex-husband. Eva is trapped in a loveless marriage and has turned to her young intern and a seductive French chef for satisfaction.

I planned everything: the auction, the buyer, my daughter's freedom. Then Dane Sinclair places his bid and claims me instead. I'm being auctioned to the highest bidder by my dead husband's secret society. I have a deal with the man who's supposed to win. He'll bury my secrets. I'll give him the connections he needs to rise in the council. Then Dane Sinclair —the one man I haven't stopped thinking about for almost twenty years —pays fifty million dollars and ruins everything. Now he owns me. He's making me crave the way he controls me and makes me beg.

My enemy is The Apocalypse Society: Three brothers, a hidden agenda, distorted masks, and minions who do their dirty work. They tried to kill the rabbit. They injured two of the men I love. They thought they could cut me down. Not only my life, but the lives of my four men, are now in danger. Time is running out. The rabbit is almost in their trap. The next time, they may succeed in killing me. Or worse, someone I love.

Cole’s got big plans for our future—permanent plans that he won’t let me say no to. But we’ve got bigger problems, as a new rival threatens the Savage Society and Cole’s position in it. War’s coming, and my hitman boyfriend’s about to learn what ‘til death do us part really means.

All I wanted was a new life, a fresh start in Faders Bay. But fate hadn’t written my name in the stars, it was written in cold, murderous blood. Zade. Sawyer. Dalton. Cross. They wanted something from me—they wanted my heart. Literally carved right out of my chest. They vowed to protect me, vowed to keep me safe from the very monsters they claimed to be. But Zade was the devil, a knight in shining murder, while the others sat back to watch the show, wicked grins stretched across their traitorous faces. I never should have trusted them.

Mafiaprinzessin Tierney Callaghan weiß, dass sie sich von Achilles Ferrante fernhalten sollte, und das nicht nur, weil er einem verfeindeten Clan angehört. Einst verbanden die beiden tiefe Gefühle, doch dann verriet Tierney den Mann, den sie liebte, für eine Chance auf Freiheit. Seither hat Achilles Rache geschworen. Rache für sein gebrochenes Herz. Rache für alles, was er erdulden musste. Denn niemand hintergeht ein Monster – nicht einmal dessen größte Versuchung …

Twenty Beautiful Lies stand before me. I can feel one’s hatred from across the ballroom. She loathes me and all that I stand for...that’s why she will be my choice, my belle of the ball. Born into a secret society that strangles the life out of me, I have no choice but to face my demons head on. Inheritance isn’t about money or land, it’s much more twisted than that.... A sinful birthright. A dark heritage. A secret tradition only the most powerful and wealthy are aware of. The Order of the Silver Ghost.

Die Filmstudentin Catherine hat ein Geheimnis: einen lang gehegten Traum, der Ursprung aller ihrer sexuellen Fantasien ist. Einen Traum voller Begierden, für die sie sich schämt und die ihr peinlich sind. Und dieser Traum wird immer lebendiger, ist erfüllt von wildem, orgiastischem Sex und hält schließlich Einzug in ihren Alltag: Eines Abends trifft sie in einem Club auf einen Mann, der sie in eine fremde Welt entführt. Und bald tritt sie der exklusiven Juliette Society bei, einer Geheimgesellschaft , in der sie ihre tiefsten und dunkelsten Fantasien auslebt. Doch wer dieser Welt beitritt, für den gibt es kein Zurück mehr.

We all wear masks in our everyday lives. We wear them so that others see only what we want them to see. We get so used to having them on that we begin to believe that the masks we wear are the real us. When our mind begins to believe the mask we wear is the real us, the real harm starts. We begin to lose our real selves. When enough of our real self disappears, it is hard for us to understand what is really happening and we fall into a state of existence that is, perhaps, not what we wanted at all.