Forbidden Fruit: A short story of Trae

Anne is 17 and living in Stanlo, a Trae community that produces salt. As a Lead Trainee she's ignored by the rest of community, who don't want anything to do with the girl being groomed for leadership by their enslavers, evil creatures called the Loche. But Anne is strong, self-reliant, and accepting of her solitary existence, until she gets involved with her new Lead Trainer—someone who causes her to question all she thought she knew about the world and her place in it.

While this story stands on its own, it contains characters from the highly-rated novel, Dreaming of Deliverance, by R.E. Chambliss.