The start of a new serial, set on a Kur dominated Earth, which will probably post once a week to give Chloe time to wrestle with the art chores.
When last we saw our Earth bound heroine, things looked grim indeed, but this is no ordinary woman we're talking about – this is Rachel Evans!
One year on from the novella, ‘Glad Tidings of Comfort and Joy’ (read it first, if you haven’t already) and for reasons that will become clear in detail in the novel, Rachel is now in hiding 'in plain sight' from the Kur conspiracy that is tightening its grip on North America year by year. A dark shadow is slowly but surely drawing its veil over the planet Earth as the Priest Kings on Gor seem powerless or disinterested to intervene.
As women in North America lose more and more of their hard won civil liberties, Rachel is in hiding now as a common maid servant in the household staff of Kur sympathiser, Patrick Rowell.
It is New Year's Eve and a number of the high ranking Kurii sympathisers and their red silk and white silk girls have been invited by Patrick Rowell to a remote and luxurious house on an island off the coast of Maine for a welcome vacation to party hard and see in the new year – a new year that will herald even more power for the Kurii.
It is a party where Rachel Evans will be serving the very same Kur masters who would have her head if only they knew who she was.
But this is no ordinary New Year's vacation, for attending will be a man whose name is feared by every Kur sympathiser on Earth – the Kurii enforcer known only as 'the Sleen'. This is a man who will kill, when ordered, a President or Prime Minister or a King or a Queen if they stand in the way of the Kur conspiracy. The Sleen is said to be one of the deadliest men on Gor – a master of the Black caste – now stationed on Earth to ensure that all the Kur factions and sympathisers 'behave themselves' and follow orders without question.
But as a storm rolls in from the North Atlantic, the island of Bear Crag off the coast of Maine is cut off from the mainland, and when the body of one of the leading Kur sympathisers is found dead in the wine cellar with the words 'Ta-Sardar-Gor' (translation: 'to the Priest Kings of Gor') scrawled in blood on the flagstones, it is evident that a Priest King assassin is on the island too – his or her name, 'Azrael' signed with a flourish next to the body.
Now the Kur are trapped and hunted and it is all Rachel Evans can do to avoid being exposed to the Kurii or being added to Azrael's kill list.
It's Gor meets Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Indians' with a dash of the Handmaid's Tale for good measure and a David Bowie quote for the title.
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