@Plastic Heart / Planet Rockeye:
Oh, yes, this new novel is definitely much better! Keeping the part about the island being invaded is fine; it just has to be set up in a way where it makes it clear that it results from the protagonist's many careless mistakes rather than being some inevitable quality of the world. The therapy sections at the end can be deleted without trouble - or just rewritten in a more Asmodean way, which makes it clearer that the people getting this involuntary "therapy" have simply changed from one owner to another; and that the question is not whether the little people of the world will be owned, but whether it is you doing the owning or somebody else's government.
If there's any way to pay for the creation of new books interdimensionally, Abrogail would happily pay 1000gp to fund production of a romance novel with a proper Asmodean plotline (now that they have some idea of what that is) but with the sort of technical details that don't usually go into romance novels!