Wicked Hope — Tilly Slaton

As scientists struggle to create a cure that has threatened mankind's survival, compounds are built to house their experiments ... their atrocities. Unfortunately, power and arrogance eventually taint good intentions, and humans find themselves facing a tragic reality: to the scientists, the ends justify the means; to the victimized cattle within, brutalities and starvation. In the end, the raw, basic needs of man must be sated. Sally is uncertain whether or not she has the courage to survive, to live another day, or if she can find the unequivocal valor to embrace death itself. Sebastian, a young boy who is also held captive, endures the worst of all fathomable pedophilic perversions, which provides Sally with the means to find the voice once silenced by fear and suffering. Sally realizes she will do almost anything to protect the child, even live to wake another day of hell.