A masterpiece of institutional slavery and female dominationProbing the lowest levels of the outwardly respectable London headquarters of Shiller plc, Vanessa Buckingham stumbles into a hidden world of twenty first century slavery. Turned into a living puppet by Shiller's enigmatic director, Vanessa is forced to record every detail of the slave-girls' lives; from intimate psychological testing at the mysterious Fellgrish Institute, through strict training and ultimate submission to the clients who hire them. In the process Vanessa must confront both her own true nature and a terrible dilemma: can there be such a thing as a willing slave? Should she expose Shiller's activities as immoral - or let herself become another commodity in its girlflesh trade?Part of Adriana Arden's 'Girlflesh' series. Titles in this series are The Girlflesh Institute, The Girlflesh Castle and The Girlflesh Captives, all available from Nexus.

Cheryl and Laura decide to pool their substantial divorce settlements and buy a hotel. When the women find out that each secretly harbours a desire to run an upmarket bordello, they seize the opportunity to turn St Jude¿s into a bawdy funhouse for both sexes, where fantasies ¿ from the mild to the increasingly perverse ¿ are indulged. But when attractive , sinister John Dempsey comes on the scene, Cheryl is smitten, but Laura less so, convinced he¿s out to con them, or report them to the authorities or both. Which of the women is right? And will their friendship ¿ and their business ¿ survive?