To keep his community going, however, he effectively runs a prostitution ring. She was essentially sold into sexual slavery by her companion, and is now the property of Aaron, a man who’s carved out a little niche of relative peace on an abandoned cruise ship.
Women are in short supply, many having been sexually assaulted and murdered by the gangs of roving, lawless men.
In Cain’s post-apocalyptic world, some unnamed moron of a US President started a nuclear war that’s devastated the landscape. However, this particular novel is a standalone, and it fits the dystopian romance bill in a deliciously creepy way. This – plus the length of time she leaves in between installments, and their high cost:length ratio – means I’ve stopped recommending many of her books. Cain is notoriously poor at finishing series only one of her many series has actually been completed, and even then the ending was left open, so she could continue the characters’ storyline in a sequel series.
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