Stephen Mason sets out to explore his submissive side with a range of available female partners, but ends up chasing an impossible passion with one married woman. A big, readable story of obsessive love and off-centre sex told with compassion, insight and humour.

‘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.

‘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.