Not for the faint of  heart. The warning is given, some people take it, some people don't, recognize this second warning: this is a very dark piece of fiction yet it tasteful (as tasteful as the topic can be, which isn't very much so) depicts the life of sex slaves, specifically a young girl who is fighting to keep from loving her master. Great stuff. Worth reading if you can handle, understand, and recognize the craft of darker fiction writing. To be honest, I've read darker stuff, but it's usually not this well written. Kittykat44 can write. True talent right here.

"I swallowed and felt my tongue scrape against the roof of my mouth like sandpaper. The first thought that occurred to me was that I needed to find a source of water. I tried narrowing my eyes at the taming sun that opened out in front of me. The second thought that travelled through me flamed like arsenic poisoning through my flesh... I need to run. "

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It's the late 18th Century and the Industrial Revolution has set a divide between the world's rich and poor. Within the concealed cracks of luxury and power hides a booming dynasty that thrives on the sexual slavery of young men and women; a rising bloodline that runs too deep for the governments moral compass to break. Where every kink you harbor and dark secret you desire can be bought with a price.

When Cinesra Calvert wakes up in a glass cage full of bodies. She counts the dead to alive, but doesn't know which one she is just yet. Memories begin to come back to her and she stitches her kidnapping together. Stolen from the bakery that she spent her childhood in, taken away from her mother and younger sister she is forced into a world where evil kisses every bone of the men that captured her. He is everything she hates.

With every brothel whore and human pet to chancellor and judge wrapped around his father's fingertips, Micah Waitstill is the city street's wicked prince. Born into the embers of lust and money, he's never known anything else. As the eldest brother and next in command of the family reign, he gets gifted a silver haired girl by his uncle out of the blue. She is nothing he needs.

Together, they are poison.

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Trigger Warning(s): All of them. The monster's stare back in this one. Don't Read It.

No Rest For The Wicked #1.0