Slave. Book 1. Someone Else's Pain

You do anything for the sake of the beloved. I met her on the hardest assignment of all the tasks I’d ever been asked to do. Success depended not only on following instructions and rules, but also on living people’s lives. He was just a slave, by fate handed to my care. What should you do when before your eyes a real, living person suffers? What do you do when following the instructions becomes too hard? Because I’m also a living person.

I ended up with her as an powerless slave, almost forgetting myself. For six endless years I dreamed only of freedom, but with Tarina, escaping is impossible. In a world of established matriarchy, there’s nothing for a male slave who used to be free. Such men are not released—these men are shown the full extent of human cruelty against the backdrop of permissiveness. The masters can’t be trusted; they can only pretend and enjoy power. The masters can’t open up, even when there’s so little of that simple human warmth. But I’m also a living person.

This book is about true masculinity, about kindness despite reasonableness, about love without conditions, and about what it means to be human.