Description: Melissa's journey begins. A twenty-five year-old archaeology graduate student at an Ivy League university, Melissa has always been attracted to "bad boys". She is continually frustrated, however, when each new bad boy turns out to be the same self-center, shallow bully as all the others. Along the way, she's dated "nice boys" too, but they're boring.
Then she meets Erik, and discovers that she's been looking for the wrong kind of bad. Right away, he knows how to release the bad girl who's been hiding inside her good Catholic girl exterior. She quickly and joyfully submits to all sorts of wonderfully deviant sex. Erik is as gentle and loving as he is dominant and sexy, which is a completely new experience for her. The difference, she discovers, is that Erik is a man, not a boy (bad or otherwise), and he's looking for a woman, not a girl.
When budget cuts cancel her school-sponsored summer position on an archaeological dig, Erik offers to hire her for the summer as his personal sex slave. Deeply offended, she wants to tell him "no", even though her body and soul ache to say "yes".