Clarissa Cornwall is a respectable university lecturer who has little time for romance until she encounters the insolently sexy Nicholas St Clair in her class on erotic literature. Suddenly her position - and the age gap between them - no longer matters as she finds herself becoming obsessed with this provocative young man.

He likes playing power games and she begins to take more and more risks in an effort to satisfy her sexual appetite for his fit young body. But as the tables are turned, and Nick encourages Clarissa to explore her own erotic horizons, who actually ends up teaching whom?