"True silk." Just another form of chains. ---------- The world in 2499 is not quite how you may have imagined it. There are super-enhanced humans. Computer-based weapons. A lack in former mortal violence. However, it's the demons who've taken over. And the King happens only to be half. ---------- SINCE SHE WAS 12, Maven Sylvie has been apart of the ritualistic Embracings, almost entirely like an auction except one does not have to pay. Females had been oppressed and objectified for centuries now. Men come to use them as they please, whether it be for marriage, sex, blood, children, or simply amusement. When Maven is finally picked after her 3rd time in the Embracings-and by King Salkamenos, no less-she plans to make her escape and join with the Revolution. But if she finds herself craving for her Sovereign's attention, then what will she do?

APPOLLINE SLOANE has made some mistakes in her life but that one that's landed her in Aracante was not one of her own.

When FANGE KARNIE attends her third ball of all time, things don't go exactly the way that they'd been planned. The ball is attacked, and people are killed.