Louisa Burton is a painter, writer, and collector of rare books who travels extensively, but whose home is in New York. She is a lifelong devotee of Victorian erotica, history, and mythology.

Of particular interest to Louisa are the beings known by demonologists and mythologists as sexual demons: incubi, succubi, satyrs, djinn, and vampires, among others. It was this interest that inspired her to create an alternate reality in which four such beings live in a secluded French chateau, where they satisfy their irrepressible carnal urges through liaisons with houseguests.