From the moment the King called Lady Eleanor's husband to the crusade, she prayed for his safe return. While in the Holy Lands, Sir Gavin sent home extraordinary riches: tapestries, spices, oils. But among the luxurious fabrics lay a book depicting lovers entwined in an exotic pose that the lady had never imagined. Eleanor has spent many lonely nights wishing that Gavin would give her pleasure in the same way. But Gavin returns alienated and distant, and Eleanor begins to fear that she has lost the only man she has ever loved. Can she, using the book as a guide, teach her lord a lesson in pleasure and rekindle the fire of love?