Miss Roxana Keswick has been sold to a brothel.

Roxie was a trainee teacher, just twenty years old, blonde, with a beautiful face and lovey body, rather shy and a virgin. Then her family were arrested by the secret police and Roxana was sold into slavery.

Now she fearfully awaits her fate - which is to be deflowered by a wealthy client and trained to entertain and obey and serve the pleasures of men.

To make matters worse, people have discovered that Roxie is now a slave girl in the Maidens of Nenuphar pleasure house - people who she knew in her old life, when she was free, who she must now learn to serve as a slave. People like the brutish, aggressive Artur Thrux, the pretty teacher's 'student from hell.' When she was his teacher, Thrux guessed that Roxie must have a beautiful body beneath her modest teaching clothes, but he could never have guessed that one day she could be within his power.

And she certainly is in his power now. Totally. As soon as Roxie is deflowered and Thrux turns eighteen, she can be his whenever he chooses, for the price of a few solidi. She is at his mercy, and Thrux and his gang of boorish hangers-on intend to take full advantage of her degraded status. Soon, other students discover her whereabouts, and Roxana's humiliation begins anew.

And not just students. Maurice Bolventor, Roxie's former boss, discovers her in the brothel by accident, when he is sitting in the bar, drinking and chatting to some business associates and Roxie is sent to the stage to dance for them. Naked and burning with shame, Roxana dares not disobey. She knows what happens to disobedient girls at the Maidens of Nenuphar. Her friend Ana has recently been strapped to the whipping post to publicly receive a dozen cuts of the cane across her breasts - for failing to satisfy a customer. Discipline at the Maidens is administered by Mr Bowser. Mr Bowser is strong - very strong - and he enjoys his work. He does not spare the rod.

Meanwhile on the other side of Akkad City, in the cages beneath the Arena, a gaggle of pretty slave girls fearfully await the start of the Games, wondering what horrors and humiliations await them. Harnessed in pairs, naked, they will be pulling chariots in the races, whipped to a sprint by their cruel drivers. Later in the Games, worse torments await them.

It is the year 2999. War is about to erupt between the Empire and the barbarian Atkoi. For rich and powerful men, life on Akkadis can be a pleasure - but for young women torn from their homes and families and sold into bondage, it is painful, degrading and terrifying.

But sometimes the best weapons of the weak are the mistakes of those who think they are strong.