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The six books in the series are:

 

While most conflicts are [[Gray and Gray Morality|ambigous]], there are also a few relatively unambiguously unsympathetic villains.

* [[Abuse Mistake]]: The third book starts out with a female police officer getting raped by a corrupt male policeman. When caught, his violation is mistaken for consensual sex, so they both get in trouble for it. (She gets fired from the police force, and then hired by a government conspiracy trying to infiltrate an Alternate Timeline to steal their superior technology. But that's another story.)

* [[Affably Evil]]: Lots of characters, including one of the main villains.

* [[Badass Gay]]: In the final novel, two female protagonists have to go on a daring rescue mission behind enemy lines - infiltrating the timeline they once belonged to, {{spoiler|as England is on the edge of getting psychopaths as their new rulers and the cold war between the timelines threatens to erupt into a full scale war between the worlds.}} The queen trust these women with this mission not only because of their well known intelligence and skill, but also because of the one thing that make her certain that they will never betray England at this crucial point in history: Their [[Property of Love|undying devotion]] to Lady Isobel and Lady Abigail respectively.

* [[Bastard Girlfriend]]: Most female aristocrats qualify, with Lady Isobel being the most prominent example. It should be noted that her attitude of cheerfully taking whatever she wants without even ''wanting'' the partner to consent is what make one of the main characters fall in love with her in the first place.

* [[Bi the Way]]: Orientation is no big deal in this world.

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: [[Slave World]] morality is, of course, quite different from what we are used to.

* [[For the Evulz]]: A stock motivation for several of the characters, if it can be called "evil." Sure they like to torture people for fun, but they are really sweet about it, and although it's not consensual in any way they generally make sure their victims enjoy it.

* [[Freedom From Choice]]: In the later novels, some of the enslaved protagonists are stranded in their old world. Thus they are free. But they want to go back to Happiness In Slavery, and this is one of the main reasons why.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Lesbian relationships and sex acts are given a lot of focus throughout the books, perhaps more so then their heterosexual counterparts. None of the male characters seem to be gay, and while several of them are defined as bisexual this is mostly an [[Informed Ability]].

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Several, and most of them are main characters. Portrayed as a side effect of [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Having been made emotionally dependent on their owners, the slaves are desperate for their attention and thus very jealous of each other.

* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Pretty much all British agents who get captured, as well as most of the convicted serfs.

* [[Happily Ever After]]: For most of the characters, actually.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: While a lot of Britain characters switches sides to England in one way or another, there are also two prominent Slave World royalty characters who finds the new ideas about democracy and human rights to be very seductive. {{spoiler|However, they are not naive. Both Prince Samuel and Lady Isobel realize that with Britain being the [[Crapsack World]] it is, there IS no good side to defect to.}}

* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: The Ambassador is a true misogynistic bastard.

* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: While this phenomenon doesn't exist in the England timeline, it's part of what makes the Britain Timeline into a [[Crapsack World]]. In the beginning of the third book, the new main character gets sexually abused by a fellow police officer. To add insult to injury, their superiors respond by following this trope by having her fired for being kinky.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Many of the main characters are hot young [[PHD]]'s. Well, physically young, anyway.

* [[Informed Ability]]: Lady Isobel and Professor Webber are both geniuses, each of them having created a gate out of their respective universe - the gates found each other in subspace and together formed the bridge between the worlds. However, this was right before the story began. During the actual story arcs, neither of them ever do any actual academic work. When research or emergency engineering is needed, they happen to be elsewhere.

* [[Mischief for Punishment]]: One rather epic scene is when Ruth attacks Lady Isobel in front of a lot of witnesses. {{spoiler|Ruth had just been declared innocent by the court, which meant that she would be shipped back home to her own timeline - and thus lose her beloved Isobel forever. By attacking her, she made herself guilty of a real crime. Just as she intended, she was promptly sentenced to be Isobel's slave.}}

* [[Original Position Fallacy]]: In the first novel, the heroine is horrified with how naively her colleagues embrace the [[Alternate Timeline]] world they have found. The scientists joins the society, believing that they will get to be part of the aristocracy and thus accept the social order where the aristocrats have absolute power over everyone else. {{spoiler|And yes, they do end up enslaved.}}

* [[Power Is Sexy]]: One of the main reasons Jenny falls in love with Lady Isobel is seeing her have power over other people. Even greater aphrodisiac is that her discreetly forceful attitude makes it clear that she's ''used'' to having people bend to her will.

* [[Property of Love]]: Some characters (on both sides) have this as their main goal, others just happens to end up there.

* [[Queer Romance]]: The novels have many relationships that breaks with heteronormativity in many ways, from being same-sex relationships to having a power dynamic that isn't at all based on gender.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Slaveworld have a "rejuvenation treatment" that let people look like young adults until they are over 40, still be reasonably fresh & hot in their 70's, and live until they are 140 or so.

* [[Romanticized Abuse]]: The alternate timeline England covers all four levels. On the civilization level, the entire slaveworld is this kind of grim [[Fetish Fuel Future]]. On the organization level, the army of England is designed to maintain social order by turning uppity serfs into [[Sex Slave]] [[Cyborg|cyborgs]]. On the couple level, Prince Samuel and Lady Isobel has this as their mutual hobby. On the individual level, most aristocrats qualify for the appropriately gendered trope.

 

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