STORY DESCRIPTION Roe is a slavegirl who exists to be hunted. She can be tracked and chased with dogs, on horseback, with chariots, and even in the cellars of great houses, and for hours, days, weeks or months. She is used to living in the wild, mating with other slaves, sheltering in ravines, caves and crevasses, foraging for food or eating cereal pellets from hidden caches. She is the property of an institution called The Library, which lends out, not books but slaves, and her borrowers are the owners of estates and islands where the hunts take place.
With the odds always stacked against her, Roe is inevitably caught from time to time by the hunters. For a period of hours or days she becomes a sex-slave, first staked out and ravished, then displayed on cross or in a frame, or between two posts. If she has been captured too easily she might be whipped, but that happens to Roe rarely, if ever. Then she is used sexually by up to a dozen men and women before she is released into the wild, prey once again.
Roe generally enjoys her life. Pleasure slaves spend most of their lives in restraints, and she enjoys the extra freedom of living rough in the hills and forests of the hunting grounds, while her appetites are satisfied by other prey and her spells in captivity. While on Gregory's Island, however, she and her current lover make an accidental and shocking discovery that makes their lives more complicated, and much more dangerous.
This novel is not part of a series, but the events take place in the environment of 'the Organization' and 'The Library', and at least one character- the infamous Whipmistress Sadie- will be familiar to many readers.
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