ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I’d like to offer a very special dungeon thanks to the amazing people who have worked so hard to whip Folly into its current shape.

A loving and heartfelt birching to my wonderful partner Dion for his incredible support of and belief in this book, even though we know it is going to result in his family teasing him forevermore.

To my publisher Fourie Botha from Umuzi – in gratitude for his amazing enthusiasm for this project right from the start, I will force him to endure a protracted spell in the stocks.

I’d like to give a brutal six of the best, each, no begging for mercy allowed, to my wonderful agents Hannah Ferguson and Camilla Ferrier from the Marsh Agency as well as Debbie Gill from Maia Publishing Services in the uk, and to Stephany Evans and Becky Vinter from FinePrint Literary Management in the usa.

My incomparable editor, Frances Marks from Forzalibro Designs, deserves nothing less than to be restrained with tight cable ties round wrists and ankles while a bottle of Prosecco is opened just beyond her reach.

Finally, a thorough spanking will be administered to Fahiema Hallam from Umuzi as well as to the s&m team – yes, apparently they’re really called that – for the fabulous work they have done in selling and marketing this book.

While doing research, I found The Mistress Manual by Mistress Lorelei (I’m guessing it’s not her birth name) to be enormously helpful and interesting, and a must-read for every aspiring dominatrix.

The Saxon hotel does exist but in this book I have taken liberties with its decor and layout, as well as the activities that take place in certain of its bedrooms.