'I did not want to be loved, only to be desired: to have his hungry eyes look over me and into me, to have them peeling away my clothes and feeding voraciously on my defenceless body. He knew I was not unblemished : he would not treat me with kid gloves.'
Set in rural Dorset towards the end of the nineteenth century, The Society of Sin is the story of Charlotte Crowsettle's coming of age under the tutelage of the libertine Lady Persephone and her equally hedonistic acolytes, the Society of Sin.
But it turns out Charlotte's not quite as innocent as she likes to make out and when the exotic María Inés de la Cruz turns up at Chilcombe Lacey her pursuit of pleasure takes her beyond the realms of excess an into a world of increasingly dangerous liaisons.
Just as well the vicar’s young fiancé is on hand to make Charlotte see the error of her ways. She vows to bring the sinful girl to her knees unaware that for Charlotte, pain and pleasure are one and the same thing.
But it turns out Charlotte's not quite as innocent as she likes to make out and when the exotic María Inés de la Cruz turns up at Chilcombe Lacey her pursuit of pleasure takes her beyond the realms of excess an into a world of increasingly dangerous liaisons.
Just as well the vicar’s young fiancé is on hand to make Charlotte see the error of her ways. She vows to bring the sinful girl to her knees unaware that for Charlotte, pain and pleasure are one and the same thing.