A story of lust and love set in Hong Kong and Japan. An ex-pat academic, Stephen Mason, decides to turn his back on monogamous relationships and investigate his submissive side by writing masochistic fantasies in short story form, and acting them out with willing female partners. Like many controlled investigations, however, it goes awry when he falls in love with the one partner he can never have.

A big, readable story of obsessive love and off-centre sex.

'Servant and Mistress' is an intensely erotic novel and a darkly romantic tale of doomed and obsessive love.

Stephen Mason, an ex-pat Englishman, decides to turn his back on monogamous relationships and explore his submissive side in post-handover Hong Kong at the start of the century. Acting out his masochistic fantasies with several willing female partners, including the mysterious Aioko, an erotic, dominating woman who is also the lost little girl of Stephen's fantasies. But his plans soon go awry when he falls in love with her, the one partner he can never have...

This is a modern saga of love, friendship, sex and sexuality.