Sign-In
Cart
The Pembury Confessions
Paperback
Publisher: Maeve Campbell
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Pembury Confessions
London, 1957. Behind a discreet brass plate on Pembridge Square, Pembury College promises refinement, French, shorthand, perfect poise. But what it truly offers is a darker initiation: into discipline, control, and forbidden desire.
Eighteen-year-old Margaret Ashbridge arrives uncertain, unformed, and watchful. Under the exacting Miss Cresswell, the precise Miss Holloway, and the quietly dangerous Miss Donovan, Maggie enters a world where power is studied, tested, and felt.
Punishment becomes instruction. Obedience becomes choice. Desire takes unexpected, gothic shapes.
From London salons to hidden Parisian rooms, Maggie discovers a network of women who rewrite the roles handed to them. Within this clandestine world, she must decide what she is: submissive, dominant, or something far less easily named.
By the night of the leavers' dance, Maggie and the other seniors are no longer students. The balance of power is finally theirs to claim.
This is a darkly sensuous sapphic novel of discipline, power, and the making of a woman who refuses to be owned, except on her own terms.
Also from
Dark, Maeve Campbell After
Also in
Erotica
Beautiful Carnage (Book 1 of the Dark Empire Books)
Peckham &. Valenti
Peckham, Caroline
Valenti, Susanne
Hardcover
Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-Volume Boxed Set
James, E. L.
Paperback
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Box Set: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty; Beauty's Punishment; Beauty's Release
Roquelaure, A. N.
Paperback