When I first started these books, I had no idea what they were to be about. In the Forward to that first book, I gave credit to many women who have taken women's rights far beyond any reasonable scope; meaning those who were/are, in my estimation, actually anti men and in fact would like nothing less than to subjugate men. For those readers who think I am reacting to my own feelings of guilt about how I treat women, you are probably correct in one way or another. Regardless, I feel a double standard is wrong whenever, why ever and by whom ever it is applied; including, but not limited to, duplicity based on race, sex, religious, or any other dogma under which one group gets preferential or, inversely degrading treatment. Even though my feelings about bigotry has changed, my inability to address the issues directly has not; and, since I cannot speak to the subjects directly I have undertaken these books as a vehicle to express myself through.
The fact that explicit sex has been included simply may mean that sex is a fact of life for us whether we like it or not. It may also mean, (and just as simply), it appeals to me to include the explicit passages because I like them and for one or more reasons want to. Never mind that by virtue of simply being the author can, and therefore have. For any reader who still chaffs that passages describing sexual the activities are included might find solace in knowing I have every intention of shocking the reader, maybe.
Personally, my favorite reason is simple: Some time or other in some place or other during our lives, each and every individual Human Being must deal with, at the very least, our own sexuality. More likely, and in all probability, life will necessitate we deal with the sexuality of another and/or others as well; and, in all likelihood, (certainty), do so simultaneously. As people sexuality, both our own and that of those around us, is a fact of life. A part of living equally as inseparable from life as certain, (many), other facts thereof. i.e. Birth, death, eating, sleeping, etc.
This book contains the journey and adventures of Sandy. In the first book, Consider, she was a spy and was dealt with harshly; not by those she was spying on but by those who employed her, those who she was spying for. A spy who infiltrates a group of political revolutionaries is unacceptable to that group to be sure.
In the case of a spy's activity against another State with whom relations are antagonistic, if not hostel, when an enemy agent's existence is discovered that spy's usefulness is compromised. Depending on the situation the ferrets effect is often nullified by termination, in some cases deportation, expulsion. Sometimes by supplying the uncovered agent with misinformation to report; and, occasionally by actually recruiting, (usually by bribery since actual political re-indoctrination is not usually successful in practice), and/or purely coercive in nature, (the offer which cannot be refused, and stay alive), as a double agent.
However, when the governing body conducts covert operations against members of their own society which said body represent and, if everything is as it should be, would not be a threat to the government; and, said governments agent's cover is blown, obviously the uncovered mole's reports are no longer trustworthy. The chance the agent is not killed or expelled by the covert operation's target group can only mean one of two things: 1. That group is not competent, (to assume this is to grossly underestimate); or, 2. The group is competent and is either; a) effecting transmission of misinformation through the discovered agent; or, b) has recruited the agent who is now, knowingly, a double agent, working for the very people they have reputedly infiltrated, (switched allegiance for some reason, usually monitory, often to avoid execution but perhaps due to political realignment). In reality however reason in this case, internal spying or surveillance, moot.
What is important is this: The spy, by fact of discovery, is now a liability at best, more probably an embarrassment to the people they reported to, (worked for), and must be deactivated, perhaps terminated. Absolutely responsibility for the infiltrates existence must be place elsewhere at any cost. Any scapegoat on which blame can be laid will be sacrificed to hide the truth, to avoid exposure of the governments covert espionage activities against it's own citizens. In our story, as sometimes happens in real live, the discovered spy does one last service to her employers and is sacrificed to protect those who she served. The governing council of the women's City of Towers do exactly that. Not a difficult course for the Counsel to take in view of Sandy's own action. By using an insecure line of communication to report that a search of Geoff's quarters would disclose he had taken a woman hostage Sandy provided the Counsel with their scope goat, herself. Because it was known to all that Sandy instigated search the Counsel found itself immune from liability regardless of any success or failure to bear fruit.
If a success, Sandy stood to gain a great deal of prestige. After all she would have been the only person any credit could have been given for exposing Geoff's criminal acts against Tina. It also would have exposed the plot being laid by Geoff and his harem to escape the city and it's political climate, an additional, in fact much larger, reason for Sandy to be given credit and rewards by the Counsel. In all probability promotion and Lana's command position in the Tower Prison which was in fact her goal, what her action was calculated to bring her. Had the search of Geoff's quarters turned up the hostage, the fact that Tina was, by then, a willing hostage, would not have mattered. The fact Lana allowed Geoff to keep Tina, no matter what her reason, would have been seen as proof that Lana was the architect of the who plot to escape the city; and, if by chance Lana did escape those charges it could still be argued strongly she was incompetent to command the prison breeding operation. There was no doubt she could not control the prisoner if he could take and keep a prisoner. The only involvement the Counsel would have was after the fact in the line of duty as the Counsel Women passed judgment, dispensed punishments and bestowed rewards.
The fact that Lana, the rest of the harem, Geoff and even some of the prison support staff knew she was a ringer, ferret, agent, (read spy), for the Counsel would never become known. As new commander her first action would have been to carry out her duty and administer the Counsel's punishment sentences as well as having been given complete command over any who might have testified for Geoff, Lana, Lisa and the others.
The concubines, the women who were the designated breeders, the ones the Counsel intended Geoff should act as sperm donor too, would simply move to the underground dungeons and disappear after Sandy was sure they were forgotten by her superiors. Geoff would have been stripped of all his freedom, then failing to produce pregnancies, been returned to the lower dungeons there to exist until he died of old age or, more likely, hopelessness.
The facts however are that Sandy was disgraced. The Council applied the historically correct sanctions and the rest, as they say, is history. Sandy was deported as an undesirable. Her record shows she was not only suspected but convicted of espionage against the Counsel personally and the City of Towers, the State. In the archives of the women's City States Sandy never appears again. To the casual observer it would appear that after being expelled from her City she simply disappeared.
Neither of those apparent ends are true. Sandy did survive. Sandy did again become politically active. Her activities did in fact again influence the course of both military and political events. Those activities and her manner of influence from that time onward, not to mention her eventual assumption and use of an alias are why Sandy as she had been was never seen in, or around, The City of Towers again.
But I begin to tell my story out of order; first Sandy must simply learn to survive in a world which entirely new to her. In the wilderness outside her city environment and in a world which men are the masters and women may or may not be tolerated at their whim. In this hostel world she must learn to live a completely new life, and at the same time adapt to existence in a political climate in which women are held to be less civilized than she curs in heat, having no value, no redeeming qualities and absolutely are not to be trusted. Ever.
As for the style, Sandy's story is written in first person narrative. It is written from Sandy's her point of view just as she told it to me. This is her story she swears to it. I, for one, believe her.
Sandy's story takes up as preparations are under way for her departure from the City of Towers.