Claire discovers that the family business is on the verge of bankruptcy threatening her inheritance. Her family's future suddenly depends on her ability to land a huge contract from and multi-national development corporation whose project manager is a precocious little duchess almost half her age.

Four hundred years is a long time to wait for a wizard, or a man for that matter. The wicked sisters of Oz have been waiting with growing frustration for the return of the wizard who can break their spells of chastity. But will he ever come? Will they? And what of the man who has fallen from the skies, might he serve some useful purpose in these desperate times?

During her restless eighteenth summer Lorraine Banes encounters a strange family occupying an abandoned boarding school outside Hills dale. She is immediately smitten by the handsome eighteen-year-old Tommy Smith and through him is drawn into the shady world of fetish photography and movies, which his aunt produces.