reviews_and_ramblings | 2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Checkmate (The Eternal Dungeon: Sweet Blood #4) by Dusk Peterson

Checkmate (The Eternal Dungeon: Sweet Blood #4) by Dusk Peterson
Bisexual Fantasy
Publisher: Love in Dark Settings Press (August 31, 2015)
Amazon Kindle: Checkmate (The Eternal Dungeon: Sweet Blood #4)

"It's all about torture. That's what I didn't understand for a long time. The High Seeker has been seeking out and punishing those of us who wish to show greater mercy to the prisoners than the Code allows. Those of us who question whether it's right to torture prisoners."

The Eternal Dungeon is no longer a prison. It's a battlefield.

Split apart from their closest loves and friends, a small group of prison-workers seek to abolish the use of torture against prisoners in the queendom's royal dungeon. Time is running out, for the deadly High Seeker has already flogged and executed prison-workers who opposed his policies.

Do the reformers have enough time and skill to bring about radical change in the dungeon? Will they be able to overcome their mistrust of one another?

This suspenseful novel can be read on its own or as the fourth story in the "Sweet Blood" volume of The Eternal Dungeon, an award-winning speculative fiction series set in a nineteenth-century prison where the psychologists wield whips.

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