When David Sendek, a 34-year-old software engineer who has always been a bit of a failure with women, stumbles upon a mysterious BDSM club called Nyala in San Francisco's SoMa District, he can't resist the fatal charms of Jill Ashe, a gorgeous dominatrix who seduces him and becomes the love of his life. David's closest friend, 33-year-old Willie Ludlow, is a strong-willed lesbian businesswoman with a troubled past. She herself falls for the gorgeous Selene, but little do the two friends know that Jill and Selene are Dryads and about to abduct them to their home world of Ausonia, where they mean to use them in order to save their own lives. The Upstairs Girls is sensuous, intelligent and funny, and filled with unexpected plot twists and vibrant characters. Nyala is Book 1 of the Upstairs Girls series. The story concludes in Book 2, Edarta.