‘I’d love to oblige, Andrew,’ the brunette said, ‘but we might get rather too messy. Besides, we’ll get another opportunity, all three of us. ..When Julia Dixon marries her boyfriend Andrew she knows nothing of his association with The Syndicate, a secretive organisation devoted to the exploration of sex. Unwittingly becoming an apprentice to this clandestine corporation – where all new recruits are given a name beginning with C – Julia, now known as Caroline, is made to re-examine her clear-cut principles as a series of strange erotic challenges obliges her to confront her most bizarre desires.