Hidden behind black silk masks and draped across silken sheets, in these four Regency novellas, pleasure awaits at Harridan House, an exclusive club presided over by the mysterious Madame Rouge.In an intense, anonymous sexual encounter, a man who has vowed never to marry unless he can be faithful, might just have met his match. Under the tutelage of a mysterious lady, another man learns how to throw away his stuffiness and really please a woman. Madame Rouge explores the push and pull of choosing between intellect and desire. And in the final story, a confirmed bachelor meets the one woman who can lure him from the myriad delights of Harridan House, Madame Rouge's maid, who has decided that at twenty-eight it is finally time to enter the world she's observed for so long.