"Pleasure and pain, she'll discover how much she loves both when she is...spanked by a Roman." While vacationing in Cape Code, Lyla Thomas, a motivational speaker, has a chance encounter with Mark Hardin, the mysterious proprietor of a strange old bookstore. Mark possesses an uncanny insight into her desire for pleasure-pain. He may just be her Mr. Right.
But when she discovers an ancient volume filled with drawings of men and women engaged in hot sex, including some spicy BDSM, she unwittingly touches a catalyst embedded in the cover of the book that hurls her and Mark backwards in time.