STORY DESCRIPTION Pursued by a sheriff, then a relentless band of bounty hunters, Luke flees with his captive, a beautiful young woman, farther and farther into old Mexico until he becomes lost in the uncharted jungles where Mayan ruins lay hidden under the green canopy. There he comes upon a hidden tribe of natives who fled the coming of Cortez and have been hiding ever since, keeping their old ways alive. But those old ways included the sacrificing of young maidens atop a stone altar at the first light of dawn on special holy days.
Susan is taken from him by a wicked white man who has been accepted into the tribe because his cruelty matched their own. At his hands and those of the sadistic natives, she undergoes suffering and anguish so her pain will please their gods. She is bound, whipped, tormented and used in sexually abnormal ways to please both the gods and the lust of men.
And as her suffering continues, she is aware that the day is drawing close when her whipmarked and battered body will be sacrificed.
** First published in paperback c1996
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