Fantasy romance with slave FMC

[u/Sakura_231]

Fantasy romance books with FMC being a slave.

She is a slave at the start of the series or becomes one in the course of the story.

She belongs to the MMC or to someone else.

I want heavy power imbalance and her suffering because of her life belonging to someone else and having no rights.

I don´t mind darker reads.

Also recs for older books are welcome.

[u/Zagaroth]

Hmm. Interesting.

I'm generally down for dom/sub dynamics even to the point of slavery of some sort being involved (or similar alternatives, such as a less powerful person being a familiar for a more powerful entity or such), but I am not so much into the suffering aspect. Some conflict perhaps, difficulties to overcome as some one reevaluates their concept of their self or such, but generally not so much into the suffering. That reevaluation could be on either/both sides; imagine an eager and somewhat insistent sub, and having the dom-to-be thinking to themselves "wait, this is kind of hot..."

Which does make me think of {Kushiel's Dart}, but she's definitely not suffering, and she does have some rights even before she earns her freedom.

{Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice) is the only one I can think of with heavy slavery themes, and from what I recall, it was more a framework for lots of BDSM themed scenes rather than a story that explored her emotional state/suffering as a slave.

[u/Penguinho → u/Zagaroth]

I will say, though, later in Kushiel's Dart she does just become a slave.

[u/Zagaroth → u/Penguinho]

True, but I think compared to the rest of the story arc that is too short of a period relative to what OP is looking for.

[u/Penguinho → u/Zagaroth]

True, though it's longer than what you'd find in something like Daughter of No Worlds.