Some people need to be tied down to feel free. Tampa homicide detective Alex Reed is one of those people. On the job she is fiercely intelligent and toughter than any of the men in her department. Off duty, however, she explores her darker side through her highly erotic novels of bondage and submission. She hides her shameful desires behind a pen name, Victoria Tarlatan, and no one has any idea of her longing to be sexually dominated. Somewhere in Tampa's urban sprawl a serial killer is working his dark magic, transforming wicked women into works of erotic art. The killer's MO is always the same - his hapless victims are found tied to the bed in classic bondage poses, strangled and tortured in unspeakable ways. In order to crack the case, Alex and her partner Cole will have to go undercover in the DBSM community, posing as Master and slave, Dominant and submissive. But can Alex hold on to her secret while being forced to play out her most private fantasies with her partner?