Cora Daniels runs into electrical troubles with her ship causing it to crash. When she awakens, she is forced to undergo a thorough medical exam conducted without regard to her dignity.
Cora finds herself in a camp run by a species that she comes to think of as a "flock" of chickens. Their language is so different that her translator can't handle it, at first. Cora is put to work in the fields with other humans whose langugage skills show that they haven't advanced technologically.
She is determined to escape, until the day that she is put in with a man, Zan. Zan looks just like the man Cora once loved, Alexander. He disappeared in space on his first mission more than six years ago.
Zan has no memories of his life before Veria. Every time he tries to remember his past, his head aches so that he cannot think. He is a fighter for the Verians and he is used as a stud to keep their slave population at a stable level.
Cora becomes much more than a woman whom he must impregnate to Zan or Alex. No matter what happens, he won't let the Verians take her away.
Cora and Alex escape only to find themselves held prisoners by a colony of humans; humans who may be the last of a colony ship whose inhabitants had been lost.
As Alex starts to regain his memory, he and Cora will be called upon to make some hard decisions about their lives in the future. Whether they will be able to stay together will depend on the decisions they make now.
This is a harsh story told without any kind of softening effect. The treatment that Cora and Alex receive from the Verians is what you might see in a population that considers itself more advanced than those they enslave.
Even the humans have regressed in their treatment of their women and children from the society they once enjoyed. The harshness of the terrain of the planent and its inhabitants has made them react in ways that are outdated.
Both Cora and Alex will get involved in trying to arrange a treaty between the Verians and the humans. The decisions made will affect their lives in ways that cannot be imagined.
This book contains a lot of sex which is raw and open. The story was not too my taste. The cruelty exhibited by the Verians towards other species was saddening to me. That is not to say that we couldn't all learn a lesson about prejudice from it.
After the shriek of the alarm and the shrill whine of
Freedom's engine, Cora Daniels remembered little.
She'd managed to pilot her spaceship to safety--or at least
she'd managed to survive. She was on a tropical alien
planet... and the prisoner of the Flock: a strange race of
birdlike humanoids. They intended her to mate. To breed. To
be part of a herd.
She was to be provided a man--a powerful, virile man at
first glance. And noto just any man. Alexander. Was
this her lost love, who so long ago had disappearedinto deep
space? Here he was: naked, glistening, a pit-fighter. How
could the brilliant doctor, the tender lover she recalled,
have become this animal born to dominate and destroy? And
was he a pawn of the Flock, or would their flight to freedom
be a long-sought reunion? Only time would tell.
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