Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

She knew some people were masters and some were slaves. That was the way it had always been. But her own experience had taught her to hate slavery. She had even found it difficult to be a good wife in her most recent years because of the way a woman must bow her head and be subject to her husband. It was better to be as she was—a priestess who spoke with the voice of a god and was feared and obeyed.

He had to have the woman. She was wild seed of the best kind.