Adriana Arden

Irontown Book 1 Adriana Arden

When pretty Melanie Paget is arrested by the Shackleswell police for vagrancy, she can have no idea of the strange and bizarre fate that awaits her. Because Shackleswell, also known as "Irontown" after its productivity during the Industrial Revolution, is a secret slave-owning town, where naked women labour unseen by the outside world. Its secret core economy is actually based on the union between female flesh and machinery.




Melanie is sent to a slave school where, along with other lost young women, she is taught to how to serve as a "girlcog" in Irontown society and given the identification part number of "SPRING 157". Such service does not simply mean fetching and cleaning and intimately merging with machines to power them with their own muscles, but also serving the sexual needs of the masters and mistresses of the town.




Resistant at first, Melanie gradually learns to love the order and security that life in Irontown provides. But what about her own dark and shameful secret that drove her away from home in the first place? And how are the complex problems of her fellow girlcogs to be resolved? Can they live as happy, loving slaves? Will Irontown break them, or will they let its iron make them stronger and give purpose to their lives?