Jess was a city mouse. She'd spent her whole life as a slave attached to the most famous brothel in Jaspertree. She'd helped many other girls win their freedom and, in most cases, seen them reunited with their families. She'd never dreamed she would be free herself. Her whole world was the city, and the Silver Street House where she lived. There was nowhere else for her to go. It hadn't been all bad. The other girls in the House were friendly enough, and one in particular was like the little sister she'd never had. Jaspertree was tolerable when you knew how it worked, and had the sense to keep off the back streets.
Then rumors of rebellion exploded into open warfare in the streets and Jess found herself thrust into the strange world outside the walls of the city. Her new friends probably meant well, even if they had asked her for things she couldn't deliver. But the first steps toward real freedom were the most frightening of her life.
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