To Serve and Submit

by Susan Wright

Roc, 299 pp. $14.00

To Serve and Submit is a stand-alone novel. Marja is a girl of the fens, beautiful and capable of communicating with olfs, the ethereal pixie-ish spirits of the land. Her family barely gleans a poor living from the swamps.

When Lexander, the handsome procurer for the Pleasure houses makes an offer - she is sold into slavery to become schooled in seduction and the arts of carnal delight. She discovers she is a true submissive and grows to love her master. When Lexander frees her, she finds few care about the conquered or who oppose them. Caught up in the raging torrent of blood, betrayal, and intrigue, Marja must accompany a fallen noblewoman on a perilous quest to save their precious land and rejoin Lexander to free the other sex slaves.

Well written, this is essentially a sexual fantasy of dominance and submission with only the olfs and strange background to give it claim to the “fantasy” genre. - Pam Allan