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Bonds of Slavery
Paperback
Series: Chainmark, Book 1
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781067609801
Publisher: Mayne Publishing
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ryan's Story Begins
OBEDIENCE IS SURVIVAL
RESISTANCE IS PAIN
In a future where freedom has a price, how far would you go to survive?
The year is 2045. America's war on drugs has become a war on its own people. Overcrowded prisons and a ruthless administration give rise to the Chainmark Act: a dystopian solution to mass incarceration, cloaked as justice.
Ryan Murphy, sixteen and already hardened by life on the streets of New York, becomes one of the first minors offered into the system. Sentenced for a crime he didn't fully understand, he's sold to Brad Wilkins-a sadistic Texas rancher who sees obedience as the only law.
As Ryan grapples with trauma, isolation, and control, he must learn the rules of survival inside a world designed to erase him. But even in the darkest corners of captivity, hope flickers-because Ryan knows that surviving isn't enough.
He wants to live.
And he wants to be free.
A brutal, unflinching coming-of-age story for fans of dark fiction, dystopian drama, and psychological survival.
Book One in the Chainmark Series.
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