Glorious Enslavement

by Anya Richards

I am a slave, both by circumstance and proclivity.

Long have I prayed for the perfect master and trusted the Goddess to guide me into his arms. At Verulamium, in the heart of Roman Britannia, I find him. Gaius Antonius Captio is a man of wealth and power, and his domination brings me ecstasy untold. Yet while I surrender without hesitation, he resents his ever-growing desire for me. In his eyes, a slave should hold no sway over her master.

But the winds of change are blowing, bringing the threat of destruction. Will my glorious enslavement be brought to an end before Gaius dares admit he can no longer separate the pleasures of the body from those of the heart?

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

After living a checkered past, and despite an avowed disinterest in domesticity, multi-published author Anya Richards settled in Ontario, Canada, with husband, kids and two cats who plot world domination, one food bowl at a time. Having trained the humans around her to recognize the ‘Do Not Disturb’ vibes she gives off when writing, she’s still trying to get the cats to honor her need for space. The suspicion is that they perfectly understand, but choose those moments when she’s most engrossed to once more prove who wears the pants in the house.

Reviews

[Christine Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this, but I am convinced that Anya Richards is a pseudonym for Sarah J. Maas. Writing style is very similar, and she even had the same ways to describe things: like a sweaty smell is, to both Maas and Richards, "the stench of unwashed bodies". Other examples like that stand out in the novella.

[SaturNalia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish the author had more pages to explore the relationship between the characters. She knew right away they were meant to be and gave herself freely, but he was more resistive. The story is told through the slave's perspective and she kept using modern clinical terms to describe parts of the female anatomy. Living in the ancient world, these terms had not been created then. First use of the word clitoris was in 1615, so a little distracting.