It's 2025. America's prisons have been replaced by penal colonies. Convicts, men and women, now live together on remote islands governing themselves. The result is utter chaos--gang violence, abductions, and even slavery are commonplace as despots begin to stake their claims.

Madison, a beautiful college student who's been wrongly convicted, doesn't even make it past the dock. The first day her new owner has her suspended and whipped, and it's downhill from there. Life on the plantation hardens her, but it also stirs strangely erotic feelings that she can't explain.

Marta was a ripe 18 year-old when she was taken--the pimps in Rio always waited until a girl was ripe before harvesting. Instead of a brothel cage though, they delivered her to a luxury yacht. This is no Caribbean pleasure cruise as she soon discovers when the Captain orders two other slum brats hung from the end of ship's boom and whipped.

The yacht was from Purgatory, a slave plantation located deep inside the jungles of Penal Colony Dominica. With the help of the U.S.

One moment Pilar is a student, the next she is hanging naked by her wrists, a slave.

She didn't know that the Cuban police often target beautiful troublemakers with rubber bullets and sell them to the Americans in the Penal Colony. She didn't know that after 300 years slave trading had returned to the Caribbean big time. She didn't know that her beauty now has a price tag on it.

The mother of all hurricanes finally strikes the East Coast. Florida's infrastructure is virtually destroyed. The U.S. government, strapped for cash and fighting rioters in a hundred other cities, turns its back on the state. As conditions deteriorate, swamp-spawned despots assume more and more power. Washington, appalled by the savagery but mostly threatened by the grassroots movement for secession, appeals to the criminal leaders of its Penal Colony to fight a holding action until it can resume control.