The Chains That Bind Us

Twenty-year-old Bellamy Flynn was supposed to start his junior year at Briarcliff College, write his first novel, maybe fall in love with someone of his choosing. Instead, he was taken from his English class, processed like livestock, and delivered to Hyram Seaton as personal property.

Hyram doesn't want just another slave. He wants Bellamy's mind as much as his body. He wants to watch him break, to see the moment when resistance becomes acceptance, when pain becomes pleasure, when "no" becomes "please." And Bellamy, with his academic mind and untested heart, proves to be the most challenging and rewarding project Hyram has ever undertaken.

As the days of humiliation turn into weeks of careful conditioning, Bellamy discovers his body's capacity for betrayal. He learns that submission can be its own kind of power, that pleasure and pain are two sides of the same coin, and that the line between captor and savior can become dangerously blurred.

This is not a romance. This is not a rescue story. This is the story of what happens when a man who owns everything meets a boy who has nothing left to lose-and discovers that ownership is only the beginning.

- This story is not a depiction of a 100% healthy BDSM relationship. Both characters struggle with their own past traumas, and as a result, the safety of the relationship suffers. This story in no way condones the practices presented.
- All characters depicted are of legal age. All characters depicted have been positioned in completely legal situations as of the result of their own actions, as is the world that the characters find themselves in. (i.e. a debt program to aid in the resolution of the debt crisis described.)
- This is an alternate world that mirrors our own.