Bound with Briars by Charles R. Bernard

In a near-future America is ruled by an absolute monarch. Criminals are no longer sent to jail. Instead, shorn of the memories of who they were before their incarceration, they are sent to pocket dimensions created and managed by the Kingdom’s top physicist and top psychologist: the Freund twins.

Arson (or ARSO:N) is one such pocket dimension. It is tiny and claustrophobic. The toxic sun eternally shines. Resources are scarce, almost non-existent. One of the Freund twins has been conducting strange, monstrous experiments.

And the one commandment in Arson? Thou shalt not die. Try as one might, in Arson, death is no escape.

But now, a stranger who occasionally travels to Arson from an unknown place is about to change everything.

WARNING: This book contains explicit content that may prove difficult to some readers.