Black Lace is the brand name of Virgin Publishing's highly successful imprint of erotic fiction written by women for women. With over two million copies of the books sold, the Black Lace series is the undisputed market leader in this new, exciting mass market fiction genre. The imprint has enjoyed continuous media attention since its launch in summer 1993. The books look good, are designed to appeal to the female readership, and are unashamedly explicit. Erotic writing by women for women is definitely going to stay on the publishing agenda for the 90s and beyond. Mathilda Valentine is a medic in a mission in 1920s Kenya. Warned that she is in danger by the local game warden, she is kidnapped and sold into slavery where she experiences the erotic reality of an Arabian harem.

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Mathilde Valentine is settling into life as a medic in 1930s Kenya. It’s a place of mystery and danger, and Mathilde is warned by a rugged game warden, Jorge Olensky, to be wary of her new employer, the handsome but dissolute Scottish missionary, Mr McKinnon. Mathilde ignores the advice and soon finds herself captured and sent to a harem where she meets the two Mrs McKinnons! To add to her predicament, the demanding Sultan, his sadistic brother and adolescent son all make sexual demands on the English Mathilde. Meanwhile, Olensky – her ‘lion lover’ is plotting to bring about her escape, but will Mathilde - and the two Mrs McKinnons - want to be rescued?