Diana Philbrick

A Tale of Two Slaves Diana Philbrick

The world has descended into chaos by the middle of the 21st Century. Millions are dead and millions more are starving, just barely surviving. In many places, mobs rule. In others, strongmen have taken over and reintroduced slavery as a way to rebuild society. The USS Oceanic, a nuclear powered ocean liner, has remained at sea during this global catastrophe, untouched by the disasters taking place on the land. That is, until its nuclear fuel reaches a dangerously low level. Marines are dispatched to find more. Tale of Two Slaves is the story of two young women--Lori Rather, who is exiled from the Oceanic for her involvement in the accidental death of another passenger, and Dana Thomas, a beautiful, but hard-as-nails lieutenant of the ship's Marine regiment. Both are captured in an area known as the wilderness and enslaved. Both reject their slavery, but in very different ways. One of them is finally rescued by a the Marines. The other meets a different end.