The Circle of Sin

Carenza has the perfect life with a glamorous and prestigious job at a leading auction house but it isn't all perfect. She is a woman unable to form any meaningful relationships. She gets an invitation from the mysterious Circle of Sin, an exclusive club. At their parties her sexuality awakens and she starts to lead two lives, one the respectable auctioneer, the other a sexy temptress known as the Lady of Virtue. She also meets The Collector, the mysterious American billionaire Lucien Belmont. He believes anyone can be bought and sold, including her. The Circle of Sin turned like a carousel. It took her from lover to lover, body to body, thrill to thrill but no man, and there were plenty of them, made her feel the way Lucien did. Once the Circle of Sin freed her, now it only seemed to cage her. That too had turned full circle, from the liberation of her longings to the imprisonment of her passions. Her company sends her to California to value some items owned by the American billionaire, a man she has dealt with only on the phone and man who both fascinates and repels her. He starts playing games with her; bidding against her. His vanity against her virtue, his money against her manners, his needs against hers. It is a clash of egos and desires. It is all a game to him, a rich spoiled man who wants his own way, a man to whom no one has ever said no to. But Carenza has said no to him. Three times. She thinks she has seen the last of Lucien when she goes back to England but there will be one final auction, and she is the one for sale.