Beautiful, virginal and devout Jemimah Brown has been brought up in the apparently idyllic but rather insular town of Fulsham. But one day her world changes when she meets a stranger to the town: a handsome black man – the first she has ever met – who is photographing her local church of St Modos. She has heard strange stories about black men and his presence unsettles her. Then she has an even more disturbing encounter with an old gypsy woman, who curses her for her beauty and the dangerous and perverted desires that she has unwittingly been arousing in others. Soon Jemimah is plunged into a series of sexual and sadistic ordeals that test her faith to its limits. She is stripped and ravished by three masked young men, made to pose for bondage art, introduced to lesbian lovemaking, spanked, beaten, chased naked across a heath, turned into a boats’ living flesh engine, made into a sexual culinary dish, arrested and put in a cell of pain, gang-banged, degraded and offered as a sexual-sacrifice to devil-worshippers. Is this the curse at work or the result of the lust she helplessly attracts? Or has her town always been a darker and more dangerous place than she knew? Jemimah needs to be rescued, but who is there left to save her?
