Jeb thinks he has made his day with a trey of jacks over a pair of fours, but the unctuous Arab he's playing poker with has queens over threes. Jeb is unable to pay his marker, so his beautiful girlfriend Camella must pay the price. Carmella is condemned to 17 years servitude as the property of the Emir. What that really means is that she is auctioned off to the House of Adeem, one of the premier brothels in the Emirate of Califa, to spend her days as a whore. And in the House of Adeem, anything goes. Can Jeb save her? Will he be too late? This novel depicts scenes of violence and nonconsensual sex