Saturday, July 16, 2011

Six Sentence: Savannah's Despair (MASTERS AT ARMS)


WARNING: Something VERY different this week from my previous humorous SSS postings. This Six is from Chapter Two of MASTERS AT ARMS. Savannah Gentry, who is 19 in this scene, is an incest victim of eleven years and "living" as a sex slave to her father and now his business partner, Lyle. They use her to give sexual favors to potential clients who have an interest in sadism.

As she awaits her two next clients, she realizes Lyle is becoming more and more like her father. This doesn't bode well for her future and she begins planning her escape--and revenge. This is just before Damian comes into her life.


She wouldn’t be surprised if Lyle was slated to inherit her body after her father died. No, there wouldn’t be a “slave clause” in his public will. But she was certain her father would never release his hold over her, even from beyond the grave.

Her chest muscles clenched, squeezing the meager amount of air from her lungs. Some days, she actually welcomed death over continuing to live this way. Ah, the ultimate betrayal of the obedient slave—to execute the body the Master thought He owned.

Needless to say, it has been an intense week working on revisions to this chapter! I wish I could start writing Savannah's happily-ever-after story (NOBODY'S PERFECT due out in February 2012) sooner! Luckily, she and Damian will reunite in the November release of NOBODY'S HERO. But these two wounded characters will need more than one book to heal all the hurts they've suffered in life.

In the meantime, if you want to leave on a lighter note, here's a glimpse at Savannah's and Damian's perfect day together at the beach, which takes place later in this chapter. 

Kallypso Masters currently is working on a four-book series with prequel MASTERS AT ARMS due out in early August 2011, NOBODY'S ANGEL by late August 2011, NOBODY'S HERO in November 2011, and NOBODY'S PERFECT in February 2012. 

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19 comments:

  1. serious six... not sure how I feel about the incest theme, but the six was excellently written and dark. Nicely done x

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  2. VERY intense feelings and scene Kally- can't wait to read more of this one
    Dawne P

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  3. Geez, I hope she gets away. Dark. Very dark.

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  4. Thanks, everyone! Yes, dark and intense would be the way to describe it.

    JoAnne, this one is for some incest survivors in a survivors group I belonged to back in the 1980s. One, in particular, named Karen who came from a wealthy family and was repeatedly abused by her father. No one in the town or her extended family believed her, because things like that just don't happen in "good" families. Wrong. (She found love, too, with a very good man and had her happily ever after.)

    But the incest scenes DO NOT show up in the books and by the time she's reunited with Damian, they will have been long behind her--physically, at least. She'll find the healing power of love can overcome ALL things.

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  5. A dark six, indeed.
    But I'm sure she'll eventually find her happily ever after. :)

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  6. An intense six and proving you are a master at writing. Amazing Kallypso and I'm always looking forward to more

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  7. This is quite dark and intense, but very interesting as well. Great work Kally.

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  8. Intense and dark and totally appropriate for the incest part. I don't have a problem with it as an element in a book because it happens and is one of the worst kinds of abuse that can happen. Especially if she can come out on the other side of the darkness. Kudos for the way your handling the subject.

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  9. Wow, intense, Kally! You've made me want to read her story.

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  10. Wow. I really can't wait to read more of this one.

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  11. Ahh, thanks for explaining that further, Kallypso. When I read the initial set up, I had fears that the incest between father and daughter would be a prominent base for the story.

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  12. Wow, I love it! Its definitely dark and intense!

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  13. Thanks, JoAnne! Glad I haven't lost you. No, I would never have incest as part of a romance. This is what happens when you write a prequel--instead of just dealing with things when the reader already sees she's come out of the darkness and begun to move toward the light, you have to put them in the depths of despair in real time in the book. And you can't even give them their happily ever after right away, which kills me!

    Yea, Jayel. As a survivor of abuse from relatives (not my father, tho) and strangers both, I think it needs to be told. And I hope that other survivors will see that there is life beyond the abuse--even happily ever afters like the one I experienced. Savannah actually is based on a friend who was in a survivors group with me back in the 1980s who was abused by her father--a wealthy, "upstanding" man in their community. And no one believed her because things like that just didn't happen in those "good" families. Sad. (Oh, she had a HEA, too, and became an advocate for current victims and past ones--as will Savannah. There! That will allow everyone to release their collective breath!)

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  14. wow, very very intense....nice work
    Liz

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  15. Very nice six! Well done! I agree with Liz, too. Very intense. Loved it!

    Hugs!

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  16. " But these two wounded characters will need more than one book to heal all the hurts they've suffered in life." No kidding! That's intense.

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