"Armed with a Harvard Ph.D. in art history, Erika Grieg leaves Cambridge for New York where, by day, she owns and operates the hottest art gallery in Chelsea, garnering the nickname, "Erika the Great" by the fawning art press. By night, the sobriquet prevails in the gallery's basement where Erika, the elite dominatrix, caters to the needs of fawning millionaires and billionaires in her elegant S&M dungeon. Both businesses are successful until the 2008 financial crisis. New York becomes even less hospitable when her estranged, ex-con father reappears. He wants Erika to sell several Basquiat paintings, only she believes they are forgeries. Fearing for her reputation, Erika declines to participate. Instead, she joins Edouard de Grenet, one of her clients, at his home in Geneva. Edouard, a wealthy banker with an extravagant art collection and an appetite for latex, is grateful for the company as a series of high-risk dealings with a dangerous group of Russians has made him reluctant to leave his home"--