STORY DESCRIPTION

In an alternate Victorian London, Sir Percy Danvers suffers a financial disaster. His ward Cynthia Melville and her maid Pallas are classified as chattels and are, quite legally, auctioned off naked to clear the debts of his estate. And so it was that these two young and pretty women; one white and one black, entered a strange new world of pain and degradation.

Cynthia is acquired by Giles Shadberry, an old enemy of her guardian now intent on taking revenge on him through her. Determined to crush Cynthia’s spirit, Shadberry makes her his “Little Piggy”, complete with rubber snout, a nose ring, trotters and tail and compulsory mud wallows, and subjects her to relentless public exposure, humiliation, and naked hard labour. Cynthia can feel her old self being erased as she is broken down by Shadberry’s relentless torments. And yet, perversely or perhaps defiantly, her sexual responses multiply.

Meanwhile, Pallas is bought by the exclusive Birch Club to satisfy its members’ sadistic whims. She is put in antique stocks, an oral sex machine and an electric wheel of humiliation. She has to serve a dozen men a day, who happily spank, lash and screw her, and whose greatest delight is to make her cry even as she pleasures them. Yet, to her shame and confusion, Pallas also experiences powerful orgasms even in the depths of her despair.

Is there any hope of salvation for either woman, or release from their seemingly endless suffering? Will they ever meet again, or find love and contentment, or will they be pleasure chattels forever more?