Wherever dark pleasure reigns, there the Domino Queen keeps her court.Whether she's initiating a lonely peasant girl or training a trio of eager slaves, Josephine deals out tenderness and cruelty with an even, elegant hand. Meanwhile Cadence Szathkowicz, the lover Josephine abandoned on Dominica, is searching for her. From pulsating Los Angeles to the strict discipline of Madame Suriko's house in Chicago, Cadence travels on an odyssey of pleasure and pain. All she has to guide her is the sign Josephine wears between her breasts: the tattoo of the domino mask.