This novella can also be found in the "When the Dark Wins" anthology.

Beth wakes up in a room wondering how she got there, turns out the blonde co-ed was snatched up to fulfill the order to procure a "natural blonde". Her only "job" now is to shed her identity and recognize that she is no longer her own. She must follow the rules set out by her captor. His only "job" is to break her down into a submissive and useable sex slave to be sold.

Unfortunately for him, Beth refuses to go down without a fight. Through brutal rapes, beatings, tortures, and endless psychological tactics, Beth manages to not totally break, and thus has become a problem to be solved by her captor, who initially was happy to have someone "fun” and "interesting" who was a "challenge" to tame. Breaking Beth is not a tropey Stockholm Syndrome book where the slave and the slaver end up being together. It is the rough business of snatching, breaking, then training a "product" to be sold.
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Having read and loved the Thalia series, I knew that there was a story about Beth. Well, this is her story. We know the end of Beth's story, but we don't know how she got to the end. Beth is tough and I've got to give her massive props for that. She goes through hell and still fights. That stubbornness and that fire in her are probably going to be what gets her through everything.

Anthony is a massive jerkhole. ( )