When her friend suffers at the hands of a man she and another friend seek revenge. Sort off. Actually that doesn't really describe it at all. So the easiest thing is to read it.
This story takes place in the "New America" universe and describes the intersecting lives of six men that are now living under the oppression of the New America female-led government and the women that subjugate, dominate and abuse them.
Fourteen-year-old Austin, grabbed from a Singapore orphanage and sold to a Macau brothel, is bought by an American spy to help foment a coup in Thailand by being offered as an incentive to Thai generals being urged to stage a coup and who have a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys. Austin doesn't resist much in serving these plans until the stakes are pushed painfully high.
In the early 1900's a western male is drawn to a shady port in the Arabian Gulf, by the promise of wealth, and the draw of a woman. Though the shrouding of the feminine form might be deemed oppressive by many, here, he and other males discover it cloaks a mysterious sexuality within a sect of women. He is soon taught their chosen path in life for all masculinity... a world away from that existing beyond their society.