When the corporation that controls her city determines she requires a very particular form of guidance and correction, 18-year-old Ginnie Lyons is placed in the custody of a couple who lives on Oak Street. Her new guardians - whom she will be made to call Mommy and Daddy - will have full authority to punish her both as frequently and thoroughly as they feel necessary and to enjoy her beautiful body in any way they please.

After she is caught loitering and taken into custody by the powerful corporation that all but runs her city, 20-year-old Wendy Baskin is placed in a special program for wayward young women in need of reform. To ensure she receives the firm correction she needs, Wendy is sent to live with a couple who will act as her strict mommy and daddy during her stay with them.

When 25-year-old Kayla Lourcy boards a spaceship with her late father's colleague Patrick McDowell, she is glad to leave Earth and its political squabbles far behind. But when she awakens from cryo-sleep on the planet Draco, she is shocked to learn that the planet has undergone major changes. The government in power on Draco has adopted laws that require women to live under the care of either a husband or a guardian, and since she is not married, she will be assigned a guardian.

Unwilling to admit to desires that fill her with shame, investigative journalist Jane Redford is on a mission to infiltrate and then bring down the Institute. But to her shock, soon after her arrival she discovers that those who run the Institute are fully aware of her intentions and have their own plans for her, starting with a thorough, humiliating punishment examination.

Some might call Victoria Mason ruthless, but she always gets her story, even if she has to sleep with influential men or put herself in danger to get a lead. But when she sneaks onto Senator Bob Austin's property and snaps some highly compromising photos of the powerful, corrupt politician, Victoria soon finds herself in way over her head.