Seacage

Suddenly he knew where he was. He was in the cage. He was out in the sea, on a pinnacle of rock, and he was in the cage. His spirit screamed once, in sudden agony, and then was quiet. My God. It was the end. Seacage is a tempestuous tale of savagery and lust, of revenge and repentance. Lolah Burford takes us back in time to the beginning of the Christian era where love and hate knew no boundaries. Where passions raged beyond the laws of man. The Mediterranean kingdom where a young king, deposed and blinded, is left to die in a bronze cage on a rocky isle in the slaty sea. He knows not why he is imprisoned. He remembers little except having been brought there, thrust into the cage through fire, and left to rot. There is no food, no water, no shelter, no escape. It is a place of death. Thoughts come to him from out of the past, from another time. He remembers, as a boy, seeing the cage at

Tropes & themes

Bodice Ripper

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Where to read Seacage

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