Spirited and impulsive Louise is in the final year of her art history degree. For her dissertation she intends to track down a lost painting - the Venus of Collioure - whose disappearance is one of the mysteries of the art world.She travels to France where she meets the dissolute artist Milo Charpentier and his commune of voluptuous models. Their lifestyle is one of pastoral bliss, sensual indulgence and lustful pleasure. Louise must juggle her search for the painting with a series of highly-charged erotic encounters with a number of dashing Frenchmen. Will she achieve her goal by the end of the summer?

A lavish erotic historical set in 18th Century Russia...

St Petersburg. Summer 1788. The beautiful and decadent Russian capital is in a state of turmoil because the Empress Catherine, well-known for her lascivious appetite, is on the look-out for a new lover. And her entire court is indulging in the tantalising quest to find someone suitably young, handsome and virile.

Nadya, newly arrived in the city on a quest of her own, soon finds herself drawn headlong into a web of intrigue and lust because, it seems, she has just found the perfect man: a gorgeous Swedish seafarer called Axel. Nadya wants him for a lover but so, too, does everyone else. Things are further complicated by escalating hostilities between Russia and Sweden and it isn't long before treachery and sedition add to the sexual tensions and intrigues already rife at the imperial court.