#Slavery

This is book 2 in the Leopard's Bane series. The end of book 1 (The Poisoned Garden) saw the hero, Peglar, tricked by his half-brother and sister, disowned by his family and exiled from his home city. At this time he has nothing, and the story continues with him protected by Yalka, a poor girl who befriended him in book 1. However, there's a price on his head and he can't stay with her. He leaves to escape his pursuers and to work out how he can return, clear his name and reclaim his inheritance.

After killing his father, a marauding band of alien demons teleports a fifteen-year-old boy, his mother, and his twin sister to Hell, a harsh planet orbiting a nearby star in the Demonic Empire. With survival extraordinarily difficult and far from certain, the captives quickly learn they have only two choices: to live as powerless slaves or to die and become food. As the boy grows into a man, he is forced to decide just how much he is willing to collaborate with his demon masters if he is to survive.