If you commit a crime on Vaharis 6, there's more than one way to work off your sentence...

Matthew knows today is his last chance. If he doesn't get an offer to work off his sentence outside the prison's walls, he'll be sent deeper into the hellish place and left at the mercy of the other prisoners.

Varan only wants someone to do his grunt work for him, but when he sees Matthew, something from his past takes hold of him again. He wants to make the man submit in every way, and the prison warden's greed makes it possible for him to buy the chance to do exactly that.

So Matthew is saved at the last possible moment ... only to find himself bound to a man who seems determined to break and possess him, body and soul.