The Juliette Society

Before we go any further, let's get this out of the way. I want you to do three things for me. One. Do not be offended by anything you read beyond this point. Two. Leave your inhibitions at the door. Three, and most important. Everything you see and hear from now on must remain between us. Now...

Catherine, a blossoming film student whose sexuality has been recently stirred, finds herself drawn into a secret club where the world's most powerful people meet to explore their deepest, often darkest sexual fantasies. But even as these new experiences open intense new pleasures for Catherine, they also threaten to destroy everything she holds dear. In her debut novel, Sasha Grey takes us inside a private, high-profile, sex society where anything and everything can happen.

Several years have passed since Catherine's time in The Juliette Society, and her life with her fiancé Jack has become predictable and boring, especially in the bedroom. Now working as a journalist, she struggles to find inspiration in her work or at home - until a routine story about the death of a publicly beloved model, Inana Luna, quickly becomes Catherine's obsession. Inana's experiences reflect Catherine's own blossoming sexuality and independence, and the story takes Catherine down a road with too many familiar facets.

The pendulum has shifted in Catherine's life once again. Four years after peeling back the curtain on The Janus Chamber, we find her now ironically working as a political journalist, settled into a mundane routine and dating life because she chose to tell the truth about Inana Luna instead of embracing a life of decadence with The Juliette Society. Meeting a man who reignites her passion for cinema and guilt-free sex makes her realize what she's been missing, but an unwanted scandal douses the flame.