In a desperate attempt to save the small shopping center that houses her bookstore, Meg tries to force developer Kyle into talking to the people his project will displace. She even offers to sleep with him to get his time. He counters with a bargain. He’ll give her two hours if she’ll spend a night in his bed, enduring his punishment. Both honor their promises, but neither is prepared for the attraction that blazes between them in the process, turning duty into joy and punishment into pleasure.

Lust blooms into love, but they each have baggage—family, financial and emotional—that may interfere with the relationship. And then there’s Kyle’s little confession that he’s into sexual Mastery and occasional threesomes…