In a not-too-distant future, the United States has annexed Canada, fascists have seized control in South Korea—renaming Seoul as Park Chung-hee City—and the world is on edge.
Mistress Taeyoung is the proprietor of The Fifth Circle, an underground BDSM bar in South Korea’s capital. She wasn’t interested in politics, but politics was interested in her. When she fights back against an American MRA podcast bro who assaults her on the subway, she is under attack from all sides. Donald Trump makes the aggressor a martyr. Korea's conservative president Yoon Doo-hwan scapegoats Taeyoung. Suddenly she's fighting for the survival of her bar and her freedom.
Michael is an American International Relations scholar who fled the country after his think tank was shut down by the authoritarian president. But he finds no freedom in Korea as he swaps one tyrannical boss for another—the overbearing managers of the uptight Perfectum Academy where he is teaching kindergarten English.
Seeking an escape, he ends up at Mistress Taeyoung’s bar as she offers him the rawhide leather fantasy he’d always been dreaming of. Does he dare accept?
Before he can say, “Yes, Mistress,” they are rushed up the stairs where he stares down right-wing thugs with clubs intent on taking matters into their own hands. When the rubber bullets start flying, all bets are off.
Read The Dominatrix and the Dictator now and find out what’s going to happen before this dystopian thriller becomes non-fiction.