Introduction

The variety of potential human reactions in an emergency situation is as wide-ranging as the variety of humanity itself. Time and again it has proven impossible to predict the manner in which any two individuals may react when confronted by mortal danger in any of its multitudinous forms. Some men run away, others stand and fight, and some do literally nothing at all. We are each unique individuals, and our temperaments and our potential for self-defense and protection are every bit as unique as our fingerprints.

It is quite possible for sex, and the capacity for sexual love, to be utilized in emergency situations as a subtle weapon of either defense of offense. Throughout the ages, man's weaknesses and strengths in the sexual arena have made humanity uniquely unpredictable when confronted with peril. Each and every one of us seems to be born with the instinct to use our sexual capabilities in such emergency situations, but while in some of us that knowledge and capability never reaches its full potential, in others it may blossom into full maturity almost overnight, in the face of adversity.

The story you are about to read is just such a tale, of a lovely young woman who has been suddenly, and without warning, brought face-to-face with mortal peril in its most terrifying form: the depravity of her fellow men. You may, perhaps, be able to see something of yourself, or something of your loved ones, in the reactions of our heroine to her danger in that hour of need. Certainly, you may sympathize with her as she finds herself suddenly cast as an unwilling student in the proverbial "school of hard knocks," with no choice except adaptation and affirmative self-defense if she is to survive.

Join us, then, for the unfolding of our tale. It is a story as old as the history of man himself, and yet as timely as tomorrow's headlines. It is a universal story of human striving and suffering, agony and triumph. None who pass through that psychic fire with our heroine shall emerge unscathed.