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April 7, 2025
Available for pre-order
"La Esclava: The 4th Book in the Story of Nikki"
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It will go live on April 17.
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is avalable for pre-order on Amazon.
It will go live on April 17.
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February 2, 2025
New Book: Subjugation
My 3rd book in the "Story of Nikki" series: "Subjugation" is now live on Amazon.
If you're fond of dark erotica, please give it a try. And, if you can, write a review.
I'm trying to get started again as a writer, so you can really help me out by reading my books and telling your friends about them.
In this book, Austin Trask has reduced Nikki to a near animal status, but the end of her contract is coming soon. Will he set her free? How does she return to a normal life in which she is free to speak, to wear clothes, to live without chains?
Or, will she be able to?
If you're fond of dark erotica, please give it a try. And, if you can, write a review.
I'm trying to get started again as a writer, so you can really help me out by reading my books and telling your friends about them.
In this book, Austin Trask has reduced Nikki to a near animal status, but the end of her contract is coming soon. Will he set her free? How does she return to a normal life in which she is free to speak, to wear clothes, to live without chains?
Or, will she be able to?
January 20, 2025
Winds of Gaia Book 2
New Book by Lena White and Badger Therese
As is my practice I'll copy my Amazon review here:
Note: Skip this review if you haven't read the first book yet. IOW - Spoilers.
Okay, in the previous book (Note: This series is more of a sequence of installments, like magazines used to publish, than a series of freestanding books. It's an interesting approach. I think I'll start doing that myself.)
Anyway, In the previous book, we meet Sean Devlin, a son of a Lord, but not the heir to the title. And Evelyn Cavendish, who is the slave of the inventor, Bertram Cavendish.
Bertram relies on Evelyn for assistance in his projects, but besides her technical talents, he also pimps her out to influential gentlemen in return for help with his patents.
It is on one of these assignations that Evelyn goes to the wrong apartment, meets Sean, and they "sleep together" and fall in love.
But Sean is on his way to Africa to make his fortune - as he must, since he won't inherit his family fortune. On his way, his ship is blown off course by the high winds (the winds of Gaia) and he ends up on a lifeboat and is saved by a far larger and more technologically advanced ship operated by the Mohican Navy.
Because, even though Devlin and Cavendish are living in the 21st century, Britain in this alternate universe, is only at late 19th-early 20th century level of technology. IOW, radio is a rather new technology. And nobody has ever crossed the Atlantic and made it back.
Sean, is captured by the technically advanced Gaian culture (we'd call it native American.) Unlike the American Indians in our world, the Gaians have at least a mid-20th century level of technology, with capable ocean going ships, automobiles, and aircraft.
But they also have a slave owning culture and Sean Devlin is stripped and made a sex slave - which seems to agree with him.
Back in England, Evelyn has hatched a plan to go find and rescue him - to be developed in a future installment.
But along come more characters - members of a religious sect known as the Brewerites - after a man named Brewer who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic, met people fighting for Jesus and people fighting against JC. So, when a team of Brewerite missionaries, on their way to minister in Africa, are blown into the Atlantic and captured by a large ship from the other side, their expectations of what will happen to them is quite at variance with what the Gaians actually do with them.
So: Will the Brewerites, Zeke and Bethany et al be able to adapt and thrive in this bizarre culture? Will Sean Brewer find his way out of his not-all-that-unpleasant slavery? Will Evelyn be able to escape from Bertram Cavendish and set out to rescue her missing lover?
Stay tuned - buy this book and pre-order the next.
As is my practice I'll copy my Amazon review here:
Note: Skip this review if you haven't read the first book yet. IOW - Spoilers.
Okay, in the previous book (Note: This series is more of a sequence of installments, like magazines used to publish, than a series of freestanding books. It's an interesting approach. I think I'll start doing that myself.)
Anyway, In the previous book, we meet Sean Devlin, a son of a Lord, but not the heir to the title. And Evelyn Cavendish, who is the slave of the inventor, Bertram Cavendish.
Bertram relies on Evelyn for assistance in his projects, but besides her technical talents, he also pimps her out to influential gentlemen in return for help with his patents.
It is on one of these assignations that Evelyn goes to the wrong apartment, meets Sean, and they "sleep together" and fall in love.
But Sean is on his way to Africa to make his fortune - as he must, since he won't inherit his family fortune. On his way, his ship is blown off course by the high winds (the winds of Gaia) and he ends up on a lifeboat and is saved by a far larger and more technologically advanced ship operated by the Mohican Navy.
Because, even though Devlin and Cavendish are living in the 21st century, Britain in this alternate universe, is only at late 19th-early 20th century level of technology. IOW, radio is a rather new technology. And nobody has ever crossed the Atlantic and made it back.
Sean, is captured by the technically advanced Gaian culture (we'd call it native American.) Unlike the American Indians in our world, the Gaians have at least a mid-20th century level of technology, with capable ocean going ships, automobiles, and aircraft.
But they also have a slave owning culture and Sean Devlin is stripped and made a sex slave - which seems to agree with him.
Back in England, Evelyn has hatched a plan to go find and rescue him - to be developed in a future installment.
But along come more characters - members of a religious sect known as the Brewerites - after a man named Brewer who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic, met people fighting for Jesus and people fighting against JC. So, when a team of Brewerite missionaries, on their way to minister in Africa, are blown into the Atlantic and captured by a large ship from the other side, their expectations of what will happen to them is quite at variance with what the Gaians actually do with them.
So: Will the Brewerites, Zeke and Bethany et al be able to adapt and thrive in this bizarre culture? Will Sean Brewer find his way out of his not-all-that-unpleasant slavery? Will Evelyn be able to escape from Bertram Cavendish and set out to rescue her missing lover?
Stay tuned - buy this book and pre-order the next.
January 10, 2025
SEX SLAVES IN FICTION
PLEASURE SLAVES IN FICTION
So much of erotic fiction deals with sex slaves, one way or another. A while back, I happened to run across Lena White’s brilliant series, “Slave of the New Confederacy.” At about the same time, I found Badger Therese’s “Female Recreational” series, which features the best drawn characters and the best writing that I’ve ever read – and I’ve read a lot of fiction…about one book per week since the late 1960s.
I became interested in the subject of sex slaves, which led to my reading a number of novels and novellas featuring sex slavery. It’s a surprisingly common subject of “dark romance,” or “dark erotica.”
A typical such novel features a naïve heroine who is romanced or captured by a sadistic man who takes control of the heroine and introduces her to the sheer erotic pleasure of being paddled or whipped. She is powerfully aroused and falls in love/lust with the dominant man.
Which led me to wonder: Why is this such a compelling trope?
Many, if not most such stories are written by women. And the audience for them is, apparently, made up mostly of women.
But Badger Therese, Lena White, and Ashley Zacharias (among others) have taken different approaches to the subject.
Zacharias wrote a series titled “Slave of the Aristocracy” in which her characters live in an alternate universe which has 1950s technology, an 18th century British type social structure, and slavery. While there are male slaves, we don’t see them. The focus is on female sex slaves.
The heroine is the wife of a lord, who, frustrated by the lack of sexual attention in her life, creates a scandal by selling herself into slavery. Oddly, the heroine, Irene, she doesn’t make moral judgments about slavery. She adapts to it well, enjoys much of what she is compelled to do – even assists her various owners, including assisting some of them in torturing her. In the last book, she does use her intelligence and network of associates to make some changes in the institution.
As Zacharias depicts it, slavery is a brutal institution in which slaves may be punished by crucifixion, may be beaten or tortured at the whim of their owners, and are sold when they reach the age when they are no longer nubile. (About age 40.) They are invariably worked to death by age 45.
I like Irene as a heroine. She isn’t naïve. She is not passive. She is smart, enjoys sex – even as a slave – and uses her own cleverness to better her own condition and achieve goals.
Lena White’s “Slave of the New Confederacy” is set in the Confederate States of America, which has survived to the present day, having won the 1860s Civil War. Again, there are female slaves who are selected for beauty and, as far as we can see from the novel, owned mainly by wealthy landowners, descendants of the 19th century planters. They own harems of several girls who take over the job of sexually satisfying the owners after the wives have had their children and have lost interest in sex.
The main heroine, Grace Rooney, is duped into crossing the Ohio River with a group of her high school classmates, to try out the “slave experience.” But, she loses the “Confederate lottery,” and is not allowed to return home. Instead, she is taken into the bizarre slave system in which the female slaves are at the bottom of the social structure. They aren’t allowed to wear clothing. They’re constantly chained. (Their cuffs are permanently installed.) Grace is not very young and is unable to resist. Her mother and a friend work on liberating her. But Grace makes the best of it.
In White’s world, the slaves are “wrangled” by black men. These men are hirelings. The white men have a higher social rank than the female slaves, but it is the wealthy landowners who are on top.
Like Zacharias’s slaves, White’s slaves are subject to the death penalty for attempted escape. And, in fact, are sometimes nailed to a barn door after an escape. Nearby slaves are tortured to try to extract information.
The best and most thoughtfully drawn slave character is Badger Therese’s Hannah. (I know if Therese is male or female, so I’ll use initials instead of a pronoun.) Hannah is the daughter of an impoverished mother. So, when creditors raid their home, Hannah is seized as collateral for the defaulted debt.
The type of slavery in Therese’s world is much less malign than in White’s or Zacharias. Therese takes us through the experience of a brilliant late teen, sold to a wealthy family as a plaything of their 19 y/o son. There is a daughter, Athena, who is younger than Hannah and not as bright as Hannah. The pressures on Hannah, who is a beautiful sex slave, her rivalry with Athena, her difficult relations with the other slaves and free people with whom she has sex is an interesting story in itself. As is Hannah’s desperate need to obtain an education despite the barriers.
Eventually, due to a problem involving the man and woman of the house, Hannah is sent to be kenneled at the university, ostensibly to be handy for Allain (for whom she was bought.) But in the kennel, which is really a prison for the slaves held there, Hannah is freer than ever before. She has access to the internet. She can take classes. She can schedule sex with the other inmates. She begins to realize her own individuality and intelligence.
In “Spartacine,” Hannah realizes that the system of slavery is wrong, and she begins to take action to defeat the system. In “Gargoyles,” she takes dangerous action to strike at the heart of the system.
If you don’t ever read any other book, read “Recreational Female” and the other books in the series.
Therese’s “Debt Proxy” series is similarly brilliant, but “Recreational Female” is BT’s high point.
***
Back in the day, I began writing and publishing on Amazon Prime and Nook Press. But, in 2016, I got a cancer diagnosis and, although, after some fairly serious surgery and radiation treatment and androgen suppressant treatments, I kind of lost interest in writing.
However, in 2023, I took it up again with an interest in sex slavery. I’ve written seven novels – the first four are the Story of Nikki series. Nikki is a recent college graduate who falls under the influence of a billionaire, Austin Trask, and voluntarily signs up as his slave – three years under the most severe conditions. I’m interested in her motives and the changes in her feelings and viewpoints as she serves her contracted time.
From time to time, Trask lends her to other people, so her experiences are varying and sometimes extreme.
My second series consists of three novels which take place in a post-apocalyptic world. Most humans have been killed by the “Man-Plague.” The plague itself killed 2/3 of humans, but 97% of men. In order to keep some semblance of a civilization, a huge number of women must be enslaved and compelled to do the necessary work. The slaves are classified as outside the human species, are required to be tagged and spayed by Animal Control and are not allowed clothing.
My heroine is Denise Sager, who is bought from death row in Washington state to be a sex slave for a farmer in Florida.
So, this is a shameless plug for my own books. But I think that the whole sex slave genre is interesting and – so long as it remains purely imaginary – fun to read and write about.
Comments anyone?
I’m just starting out again. I need friends and followers – not to mention readers. I’d be really interested in feedback from the folks on this site. So, if you have comments, write them hee, please.
So much of erotic fiction deals with sex slaves, one way or another. A while back, I happened to run across Lena White’s brilliant series, “Slave of the New Confederacy.” At about the same time, I found Badger Therese’s “Female Recreational” series, which features the best drawn characters and the best writing that I’ve ever read – and I’ve read a lot of fiction…about one book per week since the late 1960s.
I became interested in the subject of sex slaves, which led to my reading a number of novels and novellas featuring sex slavery. It’s a surprisingly common subject of “dark romance,” or “dark erotica.”
A typical such novel features a naïve heroine who is romanced or captured by a sadistic man who takes control of the heroine and introduces her to the sheer erotic pleasure of being paddled or whipped. She is powerfully aroused and falls in love/lust with the dominant man.
Which led me to wonder: Why is this such a compelling trope?
Many, if not most such stories are written by women. And the audience for them is, apparently, made up mostly of women.
But Badger Therese, Lena White, and Ashley Zacharias (among others) have taken different approaches to the subject.
Zacharias wrote a series titled “Slave of the Aristocracy” in which her characters live in an alternate universe which has 1950s technology, an 18th century British type social structure, and slavery. While there are male slaves, we don’t see them. The focus is on female sex slaves.
The heroine is the wife of a lord, who, frustrated by the lack of sexual attention in her life, creates a scandal by selling herself into slavery. Oddly, the heroine, Irene, she doesn’t make moral judgments about slavery. She adapts to it well, enjoys much of what she is compelled to do – even assists her various owners, including assisting some of them in torturing her. In the last book, she does use her intelligence and network of associates to make some changes in the institution.
As Zacharias depicts it, slavery is a brutal institution in which slaves may be punished by crucifixion, may be beaten or tortured at the whim of their owners, and are sold when they reach the age when they are no longer nubile. (About age 40.) They are invariably worked to death by age 45.
I like Irene as a heroine. She isn’t naïve. She is not passive. She is smart, enjoys sex – even as a slave – and uses her own cleverness to better her own condition and achieve goals.
Lena White’s “Slave of the New Confederacy” is set in the Confederate States of America, which has survived to the present day, having won the 1860s Civil War. Again, there are female slaves who are selected for beauty and, as far as we can see from the novel, owned mainly by wealthy landowners, descendants of the 19th century planters. They own harems of several girls who take over the job of sexually satisfying the owners after the wives have had their children and have lost interest in sex.
The main heroine, Grace Rooney, is duped into crossing the Ohio River with a group of her high school classmates, to try out the “slave experience.” But, she loses the “Confederate lottery,” and is not allowed to return home. Instead, she is taken into the bizarre slave system in which the female slaves are at the bottom of the social structure. They aren’t allowed to wear clothing. They’re constantly chained. (Their cuffs are permanently installed.) Grace is not very young and is unable to resist. Her mother and a friend work on liberating her. But Grace makes the best of it.
In White’s world, the slaves are “wrangled” by black men. These men are hirelings. The white men have a higher social rank than the female slaves, but it is the wealthy landowners who are on top.
Like Zacharias’s slaves, White’s slaves are subject to the death penalty for attempted escape. And, in fact, are sometimes nailed to a barn door after an escape. Nearby slaves are tortured to try to extract information.
The best and most thoughtfully drawn slave character is Badger Therese’s Hannah. (I know if Therese is male or female, so I’ll use initials instead of a pronoun.) Hannah is the daughter of an impoverished mother. So, when creditors raid their home, Hannah is seized as collateral for the defaulted debt.
The type of slavery in Therese’s world is much less malign than in White’s or Zacharias. Therese takes us through the experience of a brilliant late teen, sold to a wealthy family as a plaything of their 19 y/o son. There is a daughter, Athena, who is younger than Hannah and not as bright as Hannah. The pressures on Hannah, who is a beautiful sex slave, her rivalry with Athena, her difficult relations with the other slaves and free people with whom she has sex is an interesting story in itself. As is Hannah’s desperate need to obtain an education despite the barriers.
Eventually, due to a problem involving the man and woman of the house, Hannah is sent to be kenneled at the university, ostensibly to be handy for Allain (for whom she was bought.) But in the kennel, which is really a prison for the slaves held there, Hannah is freer than ever before. She has access to the internet. She can take classes. She can schedule sex with the other inmates. She begins to realize her own individuality and intelligence.
In “Spartacine,” Hannah realizes that the system of slavery is wrong, and she begins to take action to defeat the system. In “Gargoyles,” she takes dangerous action to strike at the heart of the system.
If you don’t ever read any other book, read “Recreational Female” and the other books in the series.
Therese’s “Debt Proxy” series is similarly brilliant, but “Recreational Female” is BT’s high point.
***
Back in the day, I began writing and publishing on Amazon Prime and Nook Press. But, in 2016, I got a cancer diagnosis and, although, after some fairly serious surgery and radiation treatment and androgen suppressant treatments, I kind of lost interest in writing.
However, in 2023, I took it up again with an interest in sex slavery. I’ve written seven novels – the first four are the Story of Nikki series. Nikki is a recent college graduate who falls under the influence of a billionaire, Austin Trask, and voluntarily signs up as his slave – three years under the most severe conditions. I’m interested in her motives and the changes in her feelings and viewpoints as she serves her contracted time.
From time to time, Trask lends her to other people, so her experiences are varying and sometimes extreme.
My second series consists of three novels which take place in a post-apocalyptic world. Most humans have been killed by the “Man-Plague.” The plague itself killed 2/3 of humans, but 97% of men. In order to keep some semblance of a civilization, a huge number of women must be enslaved and compelled to do the necessary work. The slaves are classified as outside the human species, are required to be tagged and spayed by Animal Control and are not allowed clothing.
My heroine is Denise Sager, who is bought from death row in Washington state to be a sex slave for a farmer in Florida.
So, this is a shameless plug for my own books. But I think that the whole sex slave genre is interesting and – so long as it remains purely imaginary – fun to read and write about.
Comments anyone?
I’m just starting out again. I need friends and followers – not to mention readers. I’d be really interested in feedback from the folks on this site. So, if you have comments, write them hee, please.
November 8, 2024
New Book - Nikki 2
My latest book, "The Contract: The Story of Nikki Book 2" just went live on Amazon this morning.
It's the second in a four part series.
It's best described as dark erotica or dark romance.
Please check it out and, if so inclined, write a review.
It's the second in a four part series.
It's best described as dark erotica or dark romance.
Please check it out and, if so inclined, write a review.
October 4, 2024
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I am excited about your book. I have never written such a long review for Amazon. Unfortunately, they haven't released it yet. Maybe it's against their rules somehow, I don't know. Still, I wanted to give it to you. (I am from Germany, so my English is not so good.) (Five Stars) Voluntary Submission This book is exceptionally good for its genre. I literally devoured it and I am looking forward to the sequel. Not least for this review, I have now read the book (52 chapters) several times. The blurb is pretty well done. Nicole Chalmers (22) and Austin Trask, who is about 10 years older, meet by chance in a jazz club. She is a waitress and he is a billionaire. But this story is anything but another “Fifty shades of gray”. Nikki is no naive Anastasia Steele. She is four months out of college, but without a proper job. As a sexually experienced girl she was simply looking for a hook up. Quote: “… she'd gone out with some seriously scary dudes.” The story of is told primarily from her perspective. Therefore she is the heroine of this story. The reader learns what happens to her and what it does to her. You suffer with her. She is intelligent and passionate. She has good observation skills and a good memory. In the cell she has plenty of opportunity to think about her situation. Sometimes she uses “Story of O” for comparison. After all, she has a degree in English (BA) and knows the classics of the genre. But there are no exquisite SM clubs or a society of masters with elaborate rules for their slaves (so far). Throughout the story she is repeatedly asked for her consent. However, the restrictions that she voluntarily accepts are becoming increasingly strict. You don't learn much about Austin Trask. When he wants to, he can be quite charming, but he also seems to be a sadist. Until then, he had never met a girl who had submitted to him in such a way. You don't really get to know what he thinks and what Nikki means to him. If he talks to Nikki, he tells her the truth. At times he is shockingly blunt. But his true intentions remain hidden. He delegates much of Nikki's training to others. Trask has almost unlimited resources at his disposal: diligent employees, spacious rooms and sophisticated equipment. His goal is Nikki’s complete servility. He is playing a game with Nikki, and he alone makes the rules.She can only decide whether she wants to get involved. Above all, it is a game with uncertainty. What's next? Quote: “Your directions sound like something written by a serial killer.” It's not a romantic relationship. Austin loves Nikki like a master loves his pet. He describes her as an expensive hobby. Nikki pretends not to love Austin at all, but his dominance excites her. She seems proud of beeing a slave. The author does not discuss any deep psychological reasons for the tendencies of his protagonists. Quote:“Why are you like this?” However, it becomes clear that women like Nikki are extraordinary and Austin knows that he has discovered a treasure for himself. At first it's only weekends when Nikki makes herself available to him. But Trask imposes his rules on her. She very quickly gives him control over her life at home. And this control continues to increase. Nikki endures bondage, humiliation, punishments, isolation and loss of privacy. All of them affect her psychologically rather than physically. Nikki is regularly beaten by her tormentors. Not because she deserved punishment (she breaks the rules far too rarely). Not excessively either, more like a “maintenance” spanking. The eroticism is more for fetish lovers, the sex scenes are short and factual. The author refrains from providing excessively detailed descriptions here. One of Trask's rules prohibits Nikki from speaking without permission. But there are a few scenes in which she is allowed to express herself freely. Quote: “… no matter how much you infantilize me and humitate me, in the back of my mind I know that we’re larping. But if I know that it might be real - that maybe there is no way out - I will be scared.” Between the lines, this story draws its tension from the possibility that Trask certainly has the means to subjugate Nikki even without her consent. Reality check: This also seems to be one of those erotic fantasy stories where sexually transmitted diseases don't play a role. Or maybe they do. Finally, a phlebotomist swabs and collects blood samples every month to test for STDs and AIDS. And the use of condoms is occasionally mentioned. A few notes about some characters: Valery „Val“ Olmos, Nikki‘s roommate and colleague She appears to be both disturbed and fascinated by Nikki's ongoing transformation. It seems strange how quickly she makes herself available as Trask’s go-between. “She enjoyed the power she had to hand down Trask’s instructions to her roommate.” She also seems to have some control over the sex party in the house and who is allowed to come on subsequent visits. She even once had sex with Nikki herself. Val derives quite some economic benefits from getting to know Trask. She gets an expensive dress, a rent-free house (small two bedroom) and a good job. Did he corrupt her? Mister (Robert) Moore, personal slave driver, exercises her daily „I work closely with Mister Trask and we are very close friends. I will be your trainer.“ He isn't introduced into the story until about 14 weeks later. From then on, he spends almost more time with Nikki than Trask himself. Trask and Moore initially only seem to have a few general ideas about Nikki's training; their methodology seems well thought out but not professional. They take things as they come and they take their time with it. But Task has a wish and it's up to Moore to make it happen. He seems to know a lot about fitness. He apparently likes to locking Nikki in cages. “.. I am hoping that he‘ll get tired of you and sell or give you to me.“ „Solitary confinement has a powerful effect.“ Ria Peterson, young (19) and naif, reminds me a little of Jaqueline in SoO “… Ria idolized the slave in training.” Nikki gave Ria the joys of girl-on-girl sex. Now in a sapphic relationship with her. Emily, an older lesbian, met Nikki at the ballroom event, thinks Nikki is Austin's slave. “She is a very wealthy lesbian, thinks she’s Anne Marie of Samois. She puts on a summer camp in New England where she, supposedly, trains slaves to service lesbians.” Obviously she would like to get her hands on Nikki. Maybe Austin will send her to Emily’s summer camp. Miss Stanford, good maid, shows a little compassion for Nikki Miss Wood, bad maid, creepy, has an air of hostility, unforgiving „She had never heard Miss Wood berate her like that. Apparently, verbal abuse was on the menu now.“ *** Spoiler Alert! *** A few things I particularly liked: The first rendezvous in Trask’s mansion. At first I wasn't sure whether Austin was a bit strange or whether he was ballsy. Was this his usual approach when looking for a future slave? The fact that Nikki had someone in Val and Ria with whom she could talk about her experiences. The new haircut Trask’s rules for Nikki Visit to expensive restaurant (Austin, Nikki and Val) The fitness regime The confinement cells That she is kept on a leash (collar and leash) „… during normal use, the slave will be in restraints.“ Prisoner visits from Val and Ria The slave kibble Some things, I was missing: Was Austin able to identify a potential of submissiveness in Nikki at the first meeting in the jazz club that foreshadowed her later development? Or was it simply a “trial and error” method? Reality check: Neither Nikki nor Valery ever thought to google Austin Trask. A conversation with a shrink to ensure her mental health. An appointment is mentioned, but it is not described whether it happened. Nikki’s actual appointment for laser hair removal and anal bleaching is not described. Was there also a mani-pedi for Nikki? Reality check: Her contraceptive method. Reality check: Isn't Nikki really bored to death in her cell? Seriously, how can she stand this? Even when unobserved, Nikki hardly seems to think about breaking a rule. For example, has she never succumbed to the temptation to try something sweet? Some things, which I didn't like as much (mostly because it happened too often): Verbal abuse: Most of the time it sounds too artificial to me and I just don't like it. Blindfolds, too often Quote: „I‘ve been in a lot of rooms blindfolded.“ „The Owner may blindfold the Slave.“ Outside the cell, constantly? The psychological effect is described and the intended disorientation is understandable. And since the reader doesn't “see” more than Nikki, it remains exciting for him too. Still, it often seems a little exaggerated to me. When Nikki gets a “beauty treatment” from Trask's employees (in the basement?), it seems a bit like a horror show thanks to the blindfold. It's all so complicated. If her blindness is a must: How about a half mask or black contact lenses? Police harassment: Another way to embarrass her. Understandable, but it became boring after a while. Punishment: No sugar, forever. Such punishments are better limited in time. This resulted in the saddest scene in the book: the birthday cake in the Steakhouse. The liberal use of stimulants and sedatives. The “Summer Party” with the frat boys Well, for the reader it was probably more of a boys' fantasy. Sometimes more amusing than erotic. Maybe Trask wanted to fulfill one of Nikki's fantasies? BUT: Drunk (!) frat (!) boys (!) - Without supervision? A disaster waiting to happen. That was way to careless. In my opinion, Trask thereby violated his duty of care imposed on him in the contract. The whole thing was a stupid idea. A borrower should not be allowed to lend Nikki to others. Trask:„… I‘ll have to add choking to the list of things a borrower is not allowed to do …“. The Trip to the ship: “The Doctor” and the special medical blindfold bandage (completely exaggerated), The arranged fling with Ben Nicholson. All this talk about the dungeon under the hacienda. A power trip from Austin. Does he need something like that? What I expect in the sequel and what I would be happy about: [Nikki Under Contract] A new, longer contract (obviously) Mister Moore: “I’ve ordered some smaller cages …” Using the bondage gear that was in her birthday box, especially the “blind and deaf” contraption. If Trask, as an expression of his control over Nikki, has to loan her out to a third party, could it be someone with more of an SM background? Maybe Emily? Vanillas just don't really appreciate her talents. The contact with Val and Ria should not stop. More inclusion of Miss Stanford. Longer-term bondage (2-3 days), predicament and device bondage (a few hours). Is the fitness regime and gymnastics aimed at something special? Nikki could do some running competition and maybe if she is successful enough, the sugar ban could be lifted? Better mobility could be used for more demanding bondage (monoglove, extreme elbow, reversed prayer, etc.). Trask is often not at home. Does he have similar projects in any of his other properties? Are there other slaves in training? Will Nikki meet other slaves? Summer camp (or probably later in a third part?): running competition, pet- and ponyplay “He wants to borrow you again this summer for a party out in the country with his son and a few associates.” Favourite quotes: Nikki: „ … when I went to college, I did a soc paper on sex slavery in America.“ Frat Boy „Nez“: „ If you have seen the guys who delivered her, you wouldn‘t ask that question. Fucking six foot four, all of them. Carrying guns, folding batons … they look like fucking people up is their regular job.“
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Review of "Captive: The Story of Nikki"
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I am excited about your book. I have never written such a long review for Amazon. Unfortunately, they haven't released it yet. Maybe it's against their rules somehow, I don't know. Still, I wanted to give it to you. (I am from Germany, so my English is not so good.) (Five Stars) Voluntary Submission This book is exceptionally good for its genre. I literally devoured it and I am looking forward to the sequel. Not least for this review, I have now read the book (52 chapters) several times. The blurb is pretty well done. Nicole Chalmers (22) and Austin Trask, who is about 10 years older, meet by chance in a jazz club. She is a waitress and he is a billionaire. But this story is anything but another “Fifty shades of gray”. Nikki is no naive Anastasia Steele. She is four months out of college, but without a proper job. As a sexually experienced girl she was simply looking for a hook up. Quote: “… she'd gone out with some seriously scary dudes.” The story of is told primarily from her perspective. Therefore she is the heroine of this story. The reader learns what happens to her and what it does to her. You suffer with her. She is intelligent and passionate. She has good observation skills and a good memory. In the cell she has plenty of opportunity to think about her situation. Sometimes she uses “Story of O” for comparison. After all, she has a degree in English (BA) and knows the classics of the genre. But there are no exquisite SM clubs or a society of masters with elaborate rules for their slaves (so far). Throughout the story she is repeatedly asked for her consent. However, the restrictions that she voluntarily accepts are becoming increasingly strict. You don't learn much about Austin Trask. When he wants to, he can be quite charming, but he also seems to be a sadist. Until then, he had never met a girl who had submitted to him in such a way. You don't really get to know what he thinks and what Nikki means to him. If he talks to Nikki, he tells her the truth. At times he is shockingly blunt. But his true intentions remain hidden. He delegates much of Nikki's training to others. Trask has almost unlimited resources at his disposal: diligent employees, spacious rooms and sophisticated equipment. His goal is Nikki’s complete servility. He is playing a game with Nikki, and he alone makes the rules.She can only decide whether she wants to get involved. Above all, it is a game with uncertainty. What's next? Quote: “Your directions sound like something written by a serial killer.” It's not a romantic relationship. Austin loves Nikki like a master loves his pet. He describes her as an expensive hobby. Nikki pretends not to love Austin at all, but his dominance excites her. She seems proud of beeing a slave. The author does not discuss any deep psychological reasons for the tendencies of his protagonists. Quote:“Why are you like this?” However, it becomes clear that women like Nikki are extraordinary and Austin knows that he has discovered a treasure for himself. At first it's only weekends when Nikki makes herself available to him. But Trask imposes his rules on her. She very quickly gives him control over her life at home. And this control continues to increase. Nikki endures bondage, humiliation, punishments, isolation and loss of privacy. All of them affect her psychologically rather than physically. Nikki is regularly beaten by her tormentors. Not because she deserved punishment (she breaks the rules far too rarely). Not excessively either, more like a “maintenance” spanking. The eroticism is more for fetish lovers, the sex scenes are short and factual. The author refrains from providing excessively detailed descriptions here. One of Trask's rules prohibits Nikki from speaking without permission. But there are a few scenes in which she is allowed to express herself freely. Quote: “… no matter how much you infantilize me and humitate me, in the back of my mind I know that we’re larping. But if I know that it might be real - that maybe there is no way out - I will be scared.” Between the lines, this story draws its tension from the possibility that Trask certainly has the means to subjugate Nikki even without her consent. Reality check: This also seems to be one of those erotic fantasy stories where sexually transmitted diseases don't play a role. Or maybe they do. Finally, a phlebotomist swabs and collects blood samples every month to test for STDs and AIDS. And the use of condoms is occasionally mentioned. A few notes about some characters: Valery „Val“ Olmos, Nikki‘s roommate and colleague She appears to be both disturbed and fascinated by Nikki's ongoing transformation. It seems strange how quickly she makes herself available as Trask’s go-between. “She enjoyed the power she had to hand down Trask’s instructions to her roommate.” She also seems to have some control over the sex party in the house and who is allowed to come on subsequent visits. She even once had sex with Nikki herself. Val derives quite some economic benefits from getting to know Trask. She gets an expensive dress, a rent-free house (small two bedroom) and a good job. Did he corrupt her? Mister (Robert) Moore, personal slave driver, exercises her daily „I work closely with Mister Trask and we are very close friends. I will be your trainer.“ He isn't introduced into the story until about 14 weeks later. From then on, he spends almost more time with Nikki than Trask himself. Trask and Moore initially only seem to have a few general ideas about Nikki's training; their methodology seems well thought out but not professional. They take things as they come and they take their time with it. But Task has a wish and it's up to Moore to make it happen. He seems to know a lot about fitness. He apparently likes to locking Nikki in cages. “.. I am hoping that he‘ll get tired of you and sell or give you to me.“ „Solitary confinement has a powerful effect.“ Ria Peterson, young (19) and naif, reminds me a little of Jaqueline in SoO “… Ria idolized the slave in training.” Nikki gave Ria the joys of girl-on-girl sex. Now in a sapphic relationship with her. Emily, an older lesbian, met Nikki at the ballroom event, thinks Nikki is Austin's slave. “She is a very wealthy lesbian, thinks she’s Anne Marie of Samois. She puts on a summer camp in New England where she, supposedly, trains slaves to service lesbians.” Obviously she would like to get her hands on Nikki. Maybe Austin will send her to Emily’s summer camp. Miss Stanford, good maid, shows a little compassion for Nikki Miss Wood, bad maid, creepy, has an air of hostility, unforgiving „She had never heard Miss Wood berate her like that. Apparently, verbal abuse was on the menu now.“ *** Spoiler Alert! *** A few things I particularly liked: The first rendezvous in Trask’s mansion. At first I wasn't sure whether Austin was a bit strange or whether he was ballsy. Was this his usual approach when looking for a future slave? The fact that Nikki had someone in Val and Ria with whom she could talk about her experiences. The new haircut Trask’s rules for Nikki Visit to expensive restaurant (Austin, Nikki and Val) The fitness regime The confinement cells That she is kept on a leash (collar and leash) „… during normal use, the slave will be in restraints.“ Prisoner visits from Val and Ria The slave kibble Some things, I was missing: Was Austin able to identify a potential of submissiveness in Nikki at the first meeting in the jazz club that foreshadowed her later development? Or was it simply a “trial and error” method? Reality check: Neither Nikki nor Valery ever thought to google Austin Trask. A conversation with a shrink to ensure her mental health. An appointment is mentioned, but it is not described whether it happened. Nikki’s actual appointment for laser hair removal and anal bleaching is not described. Was there also a mani-pedi for Nikki? Reality check: Her contraceptive method. Reality check: Isn't Nikki really bored to death in her cell? Seriously, how can she stand this? Even when unobserved, Nikki hardly seems to think about breaking a rule. For example, has she never succumbed to the temptation to try something sweet? Some things, which I didn't like as much (mostly because it happened too often): Verbal abuse: Most of the time it sounds too artificial to me and I just don't like it. Blindfolds, too often Quote: „I‘ve been in a lot of rooms blindfolded.“ „The Owner may blindfold the Slave.“ Outside the cell, constantly? The psychological effect is described and the intended disorientation is understandable. And since the reader doesn't “see” more than Nikki, it remains exciting for him too. Still, it often seems a little exaggerated to me. When Nikki gets a “beauty treatment” from Trask's employees (in the basement?), it seems a bit like a horror show thanks to the blindfold. It's all so complicated. If her blindness is a must: How about a half mask or black contact lenses? Police harassment: Another way to embarrass her. Understandable, but it became boring after a while. Punishment: No sugar, forever. Such punishments are better limited in time. This resulted in the saddest scene in the book: the birthday cake in the Steakhouse. The liberal use of stimulants and sedatives. The “Summer Party” with the frat boys Well, for the reader it was probably more of a boys' fantasy. Sometimes more amusing than erotic. Maybe Trask wanted to fulfill one of Nikki's fantasies? BUT: Drunk (!) frat (!) boys (!) - Without supervision? A disaster waiting to happen. That was way to careless. In my opinion, Trask thereby violated his duty of care imposed on him in the contract. The whole thing was a stupid idea. A borrower should not be allowed to lend Nikki to others. Trask:„… I‘ll have to add choking to the list of things a borrower is not allowed to do …“. The Trip to the ship: “The Doctor” and the special medical blindfold bandage (completely exaggerated), The arranged fling with Ben Nicholson. All this talk about the dungeon under the hacienda. A power trip from Austin. Does he need something like that? What I expect in the sequel and what I would be happy about: [Nikki Under Contract] A new, longer contract (obviously) Mister Moore: “I’ve ordered some smaller cages …” Using the bondage gear that was in her birthday box, especially the “blind and deaf” contraption. If Trask, as an expression of his control over Nikki, has to loan her out to a third party, could it be someone with more of an SM background? Maybe Emily? Vanillas just don't really appreciate her talents. The contact with Val and Ria should not stop. More inclusion of Miss Stanford. Longer-term bondage (2-3 days), predicament and device bondage (a few hours). Is the fitness regime and gymnastics aimed at something special? Nikki could do some running competition and maybe if she is successful enough, the sugar ban could be lifted? Better mobility could be used for more demanding bondage (monoglove, extreme elbow, reversed prayer, etc.). Trask is often not at home. Does he have similar projects in any of his other properties? Are there other slaves in training? Will Nikki meet other slaves? Summer camp (or probably later in a third part?): running competition, pet- and ponyplay “He wants to borrow you again this summer for a party out in the country with his son and a few associates.” Favourite quotes: Nikki: „ … when I went to college, I did a soc paper on sex slavery in America.“ Frat Boy „Nez“: „ If you have seen the guys who delivered her, you wouldn‘t ask that question. Fucking six foot four, all of them. Carrying guns, folding batons … they look like fucking people up is their regular job.“
October 2, 2024
Reviews
Hey, guys.
I'd appreciate any reviews anyone wants to write about my recent Amazon ebook "Captive: The Story of Nikki."
As you know, it's hard to attract attention to a new book, especially if you've been out of the market for a while. And this book is the first in a series. I'd really like it to get off to a good start.
I'd appreciate any reviews anyone wants to write about my recent Amazon ebook "Captive: The Story of Nikki."
As you know, it's hard to attract attention to a new book, especially if you've been out of the market for a while. And this book is the first in a series. I'd really like it to get off to a good start.
September 29, 2024
Captive: The Story of Nikki 1
5 stars on Amazon
Nikki Chalmers has been working as a restaurant server since she graduated from college with a humanities degree. She is dissatisfied with her life. She's living in near poverty and her choice of romantic partners is limited to working class men and men who are in circumstances similar to hers - college grads with no prospects.
What she needs is a relationship with a wealthy man.
Austin Trask is an unbelievably wealthy businessman. He has everything that he could possibly desire...Except:
He is seeking a woman whom he can utterly dominate. He aspires to reduce that woman to the most extreme slavery. It's a fantasy that he can afford to indulge. He has the money for prison cells, a staff of guards and assistants, and a system of bondage and control.
When Trask and Nikki meet, can they satisfy each other's desires? Can they make a deal?
Nikki Chalmers has been working as a restaurant server since she graduated from college with a humanities degree. She is dissatisfied with her life. She's living in near poverty and her choice of romantic partners is limited to working class men and men who are in circumstances similar to hers - college grads with no prospects.
What she needs is a relationship with a wealthy man.
Austin Trask is an unbelievably wealthy businessman. He has everything that he could possibly desire...Except:
He is seeking a woman whom he can utterly dominate. He aspires to reduce that woman to the most extreme slavery. It's a fantasy that he can afford to indulge. He has the money for prison cells, a staff of guards and assistants, and a system of bondage and control.
When Trask and Nikki meet, can they satisfy each other's desires? Can they make a deal?
August 21, 2024
New Book New Series
My latest book, "Captive: The Story of Nikki" is now live on Amazon, and only on Amazon and only in e-book form.
The book is currently enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
The book is currently enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
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