The story revolves around hot-headed Samantha Winterbourne, who takes on work as a live-in personal assistant to Mrs. Carlisle, a blonde bombshell Boston society wife. Samantha discovers shortly that Mrs. Carlisle bribes important people with sexual acts for her fascinatingly cruel lawyer husband. The ambitious Samantha thoroughly uses Mrs. Carlisle for her own erotic amusement while Mr. Carlisle heads off to attend to suspicious business in Miami. Soon heads off hot on the trail of the master of the house. In her search, she leaves behind a swath of breathless male and female lovers. Once in Miami, she blackmails Mr. Carlsile into letting her in on his underworld businesses. For these two, there can only be one "top" in this game of crime, sex, and power, but as they head relentlessly toward a violent face-off, they begin to see each other in a whole new light. Will the pair eventually learn to share the spoils of victory, which include the devastated, but deliciously obliging, Mrs. Carlisle? Or will one of them emerge on top to do all the taking?