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KELLY THOMPSON, a senior at Tulane University, struggles to keep her virginity and refuses to submit to her fiancé DREW PALMER a medical student. She leaves his apartment for her dorm and is kidnapped. She awakens in Miss Belle's House of Favors, a house of prostitution in Barbados an island.She is stricken with horror when she learns that she is to be trained in the art of love making. Her name is changed to JESS as she fights with her trainer to keep her virginity for the man she loves. She has to be sedated to go through the training, but finally realizes that she has no escape and that Drew is not going to rescue her.While Kelly is fighting to keep her virginity, Drew is fighting for his life as a suspect in Kelly's disappearance.LILAC Jess's trainer tells her that a wealthy man from the States is the one she has been trained for and encourages her to try to be chosen by him. She fearfully meets the man who is called DUKE. He is kind and gentle and eases her into her first sexual encounter after many meetings with dinner and conversation. He lets Jess tell her dreams of giving herself to her fiancé on her wedding night. He assures her that his encounter was with love not lust. He becomes Carl and their relationship deepens as he takes her on trips with him.While Jess is struggling to make the best of her life, Drew becomes involved with an interne JANA even though he still hopes that one day Kelly will return. One day Drew discovers that Kelly is alive and the mistress of his friend SKYLAR 's father in Barbados. He tells his girlfriend Jana, and she encourages him to go find Kelly and reopen their love or come to closure because she wants an unencumbered relationship.With Carl's encouragement Jess spends a few days with Drew in an effort to rekindle their love. She struggles with making a choice between the two men, but discovers that she belongs no place else but with Carl. She sends Drew back to Jana and assures him that she is the one to be the wife of a doct