His To Breed is scheduled for release on Tuesday, August 19th. Today I'd like to share this first snippet with you. This is from the opening of the book where Rowan, a breeder, is about to be publicly chastised for a crime she has been falsely accused of committing.
Before I even began to write Rowan's story, I had a very clear image of her, of her courage and her strength, even in her hopeless world. I knew exactly what I wanted to write, how I wanted to open the story and, hopefully, draw you immediately into her world and have her take up a place in your thoughts.
I think I re-wrote this scene a dozen times. Here, she's just been brought onto a platform in the square where the charges against her will be read and her punishment will take place.
I think I re-wrote this scene a dozen times. Here, she's just been brought onto a platform in the square where the charges against her will be read and her punishment will take place.
* * * * * * * *
“Face the
people you have wronged, Breeder.”
Breeders were only give first names. They
were known simply as breeder to most as this was
all they were.
The guards turned her to face the people and all eyes lowered as
she scanned the angry crowd that had come
to bear witness to her punishment.
“She cannot harm you now,” Captain Amro said
to the people. “Watch. This is why you came.”
Then, to the guards: “Strip her.”
One held her while the other tore away her
dress, stripping her naked. Rowan kept her head raised
even as she felt heat flood her face.
“Bend her
over the block.”
She was
taken to the large, cold stone the top of which declined a little so that once
she was bent over it, her hips would be the highest point and her head would
lay some inches lower. A hand at her back pushed her forward so she bent at the
waist. The restraints at her wrists were undone and her arms were stretched
outward, the chains affixed to the holds set in the stone. Her legs were next
and Rowan rested her chin on the rough stone as her legs were spread and her
ankles rebound. Next were the leather ties just above her knees and finally,
the thick leather strap was pulled tight across her low back forcing her back
to arch, raising hips higher to present a target to the Captain.
“You’ve
always been prideful,” Captain Amro said from behind her, coming so close that
every hair on her body stood on end as she stiffened. He ran his knuckles just
over her hip before leaning in close to her, “But I don’t think you’ll be so
proud once I’m finished with you, Breeder.”
She hated
him. His breath on her ear made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end
and she clenched her hands into fists.
“It could
have gone easier for you, but just remember, you chose this,” he whispered only for her to
hear.
That’s
what this was about really. He would punish her for her resistance. Most of the
breeders were too afraid to and she didn’t blame them for that. Fear could
paralyze in a time like this, and today, as the breeders watched the example
they made of her from behind their locked windows, that fear would only be
strengthened.
“Get on
with it then,” Rowan hissed at him, feeling her body begin to tremble as he ran
the length of the switch over the flesh of her bare bottom. She would not show
her fear. Not to this man. Not even as she knew he could whip her raw.
Captain
Amro stepped back then and that was when she saw a male doctor approach. She
had seen him before but males were not permitted to treat or have any contact
with the breeders unless they were being bred. He carried in his hand a large
syringe with a thick, long tip, the barrel of which was filled with a dark green gel like substance
that she recognized immediately. Her eyes widened and she snapped her head
around to watch Captain Amro watching her with a small, victorious grin on his
face, knowing she would endure the added humiliation of the gel being pressed into her bottom hole before her whipping began.
“Humility,” the Captain said so softly only she would hear it.
* * * * * * * *
In the
aftermath of a plague which brought civilization to its knees and left most of
the world’s female population sterile, breeders—the few women who remain
fertile—have become a precious commodity. Breeders live in relative comfort, but
upon reaching adulthood they are tasked with bearing one child after another to
carry on the species. Frequent medical assessments keep the breeders healthy
and harsh punishments keep them in line.
As a
breeder who has just come of age, Rowan knows she will soon be little more than
a slave, but when she dares to resist her fate the penalty is severe. After a
shameful, public chastisement and a thorough, humiliating examination to
determine her suitability for child-bearing, Rowan is given to a savage from outside
the community—a huge brute of a man named Silas—to be bred.
Against
all expectations, Rowan finds herself drawn to her new captor. Brave, ruggedly
handsome, and even kind at times, Silas is everything the men who enslaved her
were not. When the time comes for him to breed her, despite the circumstances something
deep inside her begs for him to take her long and hard. But while she soon finds
herself longing to be his forever, Rowan knows that eventually those who gave
her to him will try to take her back. When that day comes will Silas fight to
keep her at his side even if it means risking everything he loves?
Publisher’s Note: His
to Breed is an erotic novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes,
extensive medical play, anal play, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material
offends you, please don’t buy this book.
