Veronica is working as a prostitute and her life is a mess. She has slipped into moral laziness and made bad choices. But things change when she meets a new client called Mel. He makes her an offer - if she gives up her autonomy and her life on the streets she can live in luxury under his roof, but she must accept his rules ... get a job, no sex or drugs or staying out late ... rules more appropriate for an adolescent rather than an adult. She agrees that she will be punished every time she breaks a rule, and weekly punishments will remind her of how she should behave in her new life. Returning late after going out with friends from work, Veronica faces a spanking with a hairbrush, and with it, the shameful realisation that this is what she craves. Mel it seems, has known this all along...

This volume also includes the following short stories: Dark Magician Girl; Soft Landing; The Penitent; Seekers After Wisdom; Rebel; Afternoon Wine; Dawn; Mindfuck; and Housekeeper.