Robert and Nora Iverson are a husband and wife lawyer team who find themselves on opposite sides of a case involving Pearl Gerard, the Wedgwood Madame. He wants to prosecute the Madame to the full extent of the law, but his wife wants the charges dropped. Both prove to be stubborn in court, trying to convince the other is wrong, but Nora Iverson has a trick up her sleeve.

She decides to withhold sex from her husband until Robert admits he is wrong and drops the charges against her client. It will be a difficult test of endurance for Robert especially when he has to hear the sensual testimony of Pearl Gerard’s “employees.” Each one tells their tale of sexual encounters with highly influential people from software companies to the Pentagon. Unfortunately, Nora’s plan to starve her husband sexually blows up in her face when he receives visits from Pearl’s girls as well as Robert’s assistant, Corianne. Nora Iverson is not the only one who is up to her old tricks in the courtroom; Pearl Gerard, who is not so anxious to serve any kind of sentence, sends her girls to “convince” the judge to rule in her favor. Unfortunately for her, the judge is more interested in receiving sexual favors from the girls than ruling in Pearl’s favor.

Outside of the courtroom there is a growing concern for the Wedgwood Madame case. Apparently, Pearl Gerard kept a little black book containing a list of all of her clients. An anonymous group is going to great lengths to get their hands on that book by promising Corianne a position as a federal prosecutor in the Justice Department. All she has to do is get them Pearl Gerard’s little black book, a task that becomes more difficult than she thought.

Nora Iverson soon realizes that her plan to deprive her husband of sex has back-lashed against her instead. She wants to end the trial so she can get her husband back, but she does not want to lose her case. Finally, both she and Robert decide on a compromise; Pearl Gerard pleas guilty to a lesser charge, giving Robert a small victory and giving Nora her husband back.

Life slowly returns to normal, especially with the knowledge that Pearl Gerard destroyed her little black book long before the trial; information that relieves one of her most frequent clients, the President of the United States.