Hidden Boundaries

Carhagen is a nation that's modern in everything except its centuries-old system of institutionalized slavery. Once a person is enslaved, whether for debt or crime, or for simply being a child, there is no way out. Corellos Montaigne, once on the path to marriage and eventual inheritance of his father's business, is now Cor, the property of a wealthy landowner and politician. Jordane Alcot needed a secretary, but something about the newly enslaved, still defiant man also spoke to his own painful past. Cor can't understand his generous but strangely contradictory master. Alcot can't find a way to help Cor adapt to the loss of his freedom. Bound together by law and custom, they must work through the pain that they bring to each other.