The Burden of Eve — Paul Enock

Since the time of Adam and Eve, evolution has conspired to teach women to be docile and subservient towards their men: the stronger sex, their protectors and providers. In modern times, particularly with western cultures, this is now seen as unnecessary and undesirable, but even with the most intelligent of women, evolution is sometimes not so easily cheated. This is the 'Burden of Eve'.
Alice has just graduated a second time with a PhD in Physics and now seeks to enter the world of the working masses. She has no money, but high hopes of an Assistant Lecturing post in September if she can only last through the summer. Her doctorate is conferred by one of the university's benefactors, a wealthy Amir, Leader of a small Arabian principality who subsequently makes her an offer which is financially very difficult to refuse: to be his 'escort' over the summer months.
However, things don't go quite as planned and Alice finds herself displaced from the relative safety and comfort of the palace into the seedy backstreets of the towns, lost in a wager and subsequently sold as a dancing girl.
Things go from bad to worse as she gets passed between various communities in different countries, from coffee houses, to sex traffickers, pirates, and African mercenaries; trapped in a surreal cycle of events beyond her control in hostile and alien lands.
Alice must suffer the ignominy of being chained and humiliated, debased and abused; a trial for any daughter of Eve however strong her evolutionary heritage, but the quiet eroticism of the palace's harem is just as powerful and may yet have the biggest impact on her life.

This book has been revised and extended and is now offered for sale at 2nd Edition. It's a novel of over 68000 words and contains graphic scenes only suitable for an adult readership.

...Paul Enock is an Engineer and Inventor by day and an author in the evenings living in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK.