Bound as a slave, sixteen-year-old Annie Ember is plunged into a world of perversion and dark obsession. Here, in Hampton Smolte's dream house, she will feel her skin raked by an ivory claw, know the dampness of sweat upon a bed sheet, hear a cry inthe night - of a dying creature, or a woman's pleasure. And here, in this place of eroticism and decadence, violence and cruelty, the scullery maid will unlock the truth of her freedom and her power - vast, deathless, fantastic as the continent from which it was born...

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