A tale of smug intellectual superiority undone, as a respected professor of the sciences finds his every certainty questioned by a lowly born visitor to his country from the West Indies and the monstrous maid who accompanies her.
A lowly-born visitor with a gift for mesmerism who, gradually and insidiously, strips him of his ability to act for himself without her express permission, but leaves his thoughts free that his fall to slavery may torment him all the more.
A slavery that will involve the loss of his self-respect, his tenure, and the hand of the woman he loves as he finds himself shipped to the Indies in the position of a native woman's chattel and manservant.
Though it will not be the last he sees of his former fiance.
Even if he will come to wish that it had.
Classic female-led horror fiction from Sandrine D'Honfleur, writing as Sandrine Bessancort.
