"I wasn't selling my soul, only my body..." Eighteen-year-old Salem Barr's devastating, half-Indian, half-British beauty is both a gift and a curse, taking him from palaces in the arms of Sheikhs and Princes, to their 'play' chambers, beneath the stroke of a whip. He is plucked from obscurity by mercurial Sheikh Mohammed, whose love and generosity is matched only by his cruelty when he doesn't get what he wants. Salem becomes the prized possession he is proud to show off - and sometimes share - with his sadistic friends. Salem accepts the matched pain and pleasure that comes from his benefactor's erotic appetites. He lives like a king, and is even given two beautiful and devoted male slaves, Shaka and Michel. He is content with the set-up, until Justin Barrette comes into their lives. Salem falls for Justin, a handsome and wealthy Englishman kidnapped into slavery. He also knows Justin's defiance against Mohammed will get him killed, unless Salem finds a way to free him. But to free Justin means having to risk his, Shaka and Michel's lives. And it isn't just escape he has to worry about - what does the larger world have in store for four extremely handsome men who have been kept in slavery? Will the love they have for each other survive life outside the palace walls? As a BONUS to this sweeping, 140,000-word epic of Salem's life and loves, are background stories of some of the men whose lives he touched, including scenes from author Chris Johns' Stage of Desire, FREE *A Gay romance for mature audiences.