Set on a faraway planet where "inequality" (sexism, oppression, racism, etc.) is taboo, and high technology gives everyone easy access to virtual reality sexual encounters, our two main characters discover they share a secret. They both eroticize "inequality" -- bondage, slave/master role-playing, spanking, and more. Having found each other, they set out to discover others like them through the cybersex network.

But strange things are afoot in their government, which is being taken over slowly by a conquering race from another planet, a race that glorifies conquest and keeps slaves! Can the perverts save the world?

Mixing the sense of wonder that makes science fiction fun and exciting with very healthy doses of sex, The Velderet also delves into deeper questions of eroticism and identity, the allure of sadomasochism, the meaning of consent, and the politics of sexual freedom. Pansexual in its focus, The Velderet contains something enjoyable for every reader, be s/he lesbian, gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered, kinky, a sadist, a masochist, a "switch, " into bondage, into leather, into futuristic utopias, or from another planet.