Jessica Thomson is a student at the Acadamie de Rousseau just outside Rome. The Acadamie is renowned for its dancers, and the training offered is second to none. But Jessica is shy and unsure, failing to live up to her teachers' expectations and lacking in the skills needed to turn her into an accomplished dancer. That is until a mysterious masked stranger comes into her life and offers to tutor her in the art of dance ... and in the art of love and passion. In his skilful hands, Jessica starts to throw off her old life, and to become the sensual and uninhibited woman that she always aspired to be. Awakening Jessica is a powerful and erotic rite of passage, passionately mixing the sensual and sexual themes of 9 and a Half Weeks, with the mystery of The Phantom of the Opera.