Submission and defeat are not one and the same.
Hidden for two centuries, the diary of a sexual adventuress reveals the remarkable life of The Acolyte, Lady L tice Marie de Saint-Juste, the willful daughter of a wealthy planter on the island of Martinique. The young L tice is sent to Paris by her father, to be sheltered behind the high walls of a convent school. But the vessel carrying her to France is captured by Sal privateers, and L tice is set on an altogether different journey, into the alien world of the Ottoman Seraglio. She becomes Zarqa, the Blue-Eyed Woman, and the training for her new life in the harem begins.