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As the executive secretary for the eccentric president of a mysterious research lab, Shannon knows she has to be ready for anything—such as serving hors d’oeuvres at her quirky boss’s Thanksgiving dinner party. Yet as she navigates the aloof but festive crowd of researchers and dignitaries, Shannon finds herself inexorably drawn into a strange, disorientingly absurd underworld of power, coercion, and submission.

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“Now that I’ve got you at the house, I figured I might show you something special. Don’t worry, it’s not much. I just thought it might help you with your job later.”

Shannon followed him down the stairs. The walls were of a mortared cinder block, and they gave off a coolness that hummed. The president unlocked a deadbolt at the bottom and they entered a larger concrete room, one stretching past visibility in both directions.

Jakob Konger is from Tampa, Florida — a mostly fictional place.