This book is the final part of the trilogy that commenced with The Pain Games, followed by Whipping Girl. At the Pain Games, no-one gets killed, no-one dies, but plenty of people are on the receiving end of corporal punishment. The sisters Anastasia and Flis, survivors yet losers of the 'Pain Games' and 'Whipping Girl' are consigned to the lonely luxury of the Capitol where they are subjected to a series of painful and humiliating punishments. Anastasia's growing needs are satisfied by intimacies shared with the enigmatic Katarine. The household entertainment is a Blackjack game, with consequences in the form of hand and hairbrush spankings, strappings and canings. Later, the cruel Miss Goldthorpe straps Anastasia into one of her new machines set in her private quarters. But once Katarine's true identity is revealed, things do not bode well for the sadistic Ms Goldthorpe and her accomplice, Yasmin. As Ms Goldthorpe meets her nemesis, freedom awaits Anastasia and Flis.