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Narrated by:
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Gail Shalan
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Emily Lawrence
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By:
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Ava Reid
About this listen
The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.
By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.
Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.
Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.
When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive.
For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.
As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.
And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love.
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- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Sigrid may be the last surviving royal of Vanaheim, but she’s more warrior than princess. Her world is collapsing under the onslaught of their enemies, who are ripping apart Sigrid’s home and everyone in it. Even astride Sleipnir, her legendary eight-legged horse, Sigrid can’t fight the darkness unleashed by the Night Elves. And at any moment, the god Loki could unleash chaos upon them all … With the fate of nine worlds perilously close to breaking, there’s only one way to restore the balance: by restoring Vanaheim’s gods-given magic.
By: Tiana Warner
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I Am Made of Death
- By: Kelly Andrew
- Narrated by: Annalee Scott, Kirby Heyborne, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother's medical bills. When he's offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas—the hearing child of a Deaf adult—jumps at the opportunity. But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from the start, she seems determined to shake him. To make matters worse, her parents keep her on an extremely short leash.
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ASL & paranormal romance
- By Fris W. on 03-26-25
By: Kelly Andrew
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What Wakes the Bells
- By: Elle Tesch
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Built by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives and breathes and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina knows better than most what her care of Vaiwyn’s bells means for the sentient city. It’s the Strauss family’s thousand-year legacy—prevent the Vespers from ringing, or they will awake a slumbering evil. One afternoon, to Mina's horror, her bell peals thirteen times, shattering the city’s tenuous peace. With so much of the city's history and lore lost in a long-ago disaster, no one knows the danger that has been unleashed—until the city begins to fight back.
By: Elle Tesch
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Our Infinite Fates
- A Novel
- By: Laura Steven
- Narrated by: Sofia Oxenham
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being linked to her soul. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life before they find her first, figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse, and try not to fall in love . . . again.
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Why they kept killing each other
- By Sydney DeLucchi on 04-06-25
By: Laura Steven
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Infinity Alchemist
- By: Kacen Callender
- Narrated by: Wes Haas
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic—so when Ash is rejected by Lancaster College of Alchemic Science, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested—but instead of calling the reds, Ramsay surprises Ash by making him an offer: Ramsay will keep Ash's secret if he helps her find the legendary Book of Source, a sacred text that gives its reader extraordinary power.
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A Base Hit
- By Anonymous User on 03-19-24
By: Kacen Callender
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A Theory of Dreaming
- Sequel to A Study in Drowning
- By: Ava Reid
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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A Theory of Dreaming has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
By: Ava Reid
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Warrior Princess Assassin
- A Novel
- By: Brigid Kemmerer
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Abigail Reno, Aaron Shedlock
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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Fates collide and passions ignite in New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer’s steamy adult fantasy debut about a princess torn between duty and desire: the fearsome warrior king she’s promised to, and her first love—the assassin now tasked with hunting them down.
By: Brigid Kemmerer
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Unexpected You
- Sapph in the City, Book 1
- By: Chelsea M. Cameron
- Narrated by: Zura Johnson, Chelsea Melone
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When I applied for a job as a personal assistant, I had no idea I'd be working for THE Eloise Roth. One of the queens of romance novels, who has dozens of bestsellers under her belt. I also had no idea that she would be strict, demanding, and difficult. Every single day I think about quitting, but for some reason I keep coming back for more. I have no idea when the hell Eloise went from my intimidating boss to the woman who stars in all of my dirtiest fantasies, but it's becoming a real problem, and my already scattered brain is having even more trouble functioning. I'm so getting fired.
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Narrator made it worse!
- By Amanda on 03-09-25
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A Study in Drowning
- By: Ava Reid
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin’s family announces a contest to redesign the late author’s estate, Effy feels certain it’s her destiny. But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming.
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A thrilling joy from start to finish
- By Michael J. Anderson on 09-28-23
By: Ava Reid
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When the Bones Sing
- By: Ginny Myers Sain
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered. 17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.
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The Author!
- By Wend Blanchard on 03-18-25
By: Ginny Myers Sain
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Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things
- A Novel
- By: Breanne Randall
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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In the small town of Gold Springs, Calliope Petridi and her two sisters carefully guard the secret of their magic and the price they must pay to practice it: memories. Luckily, all Calliope wants to do is forget: the mother who left without a trace, the sisters from whom she feels increasingly distant, and most of all, the way the love of her life shattered her heart two years ago. But when a mysterious evil awakens, the fragile thread that holds the sisters together breaks.
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I was so excited after her 1st book to read this book! SO disappointed…it was painful to get through.
- By Susan Fallon on 03-15-25
By: Breanne Randall
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- Avy
- 03-20-25
Finding yourself
I loved that Inesa was finally able to learn something about herself and for a bit experienced a different kind of love
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- Anonymous User
- 04-06-25
Alright…
I was very excited when I read the synopsis for this book, but maybe it’s because I just came off of rereading the Hunger Games series (with the new book released) that this story felt a little anticlimactic. Clearly, a lot of this book is inspired by the Hunger Games, and while the author did a good job of putting a spin on it, there are lots of moments that feel… too similar, in my opinion. Personally, I thought that there was a lot of promise in this plot, the world building was okay and I did find myself liking the characters. All of that being said, though, I feel we should’ve explored Caerus (i.e the Capitol) more. The other Angels and Azrael really peaked my interest, but they’re barely touched on. The ending was abrupt and left me disappointed. It just feels unfinished, with so much more to explore. This is a standalone book and I feel it would’ve been much better as a duology. The pacing is lackluster, leaving portions of the story to feel slow and a little boring. It picks up but still leaves something to be desired. All in all, it isn’t a bad book, but not one I will be reaching for on my shelf again. One positive note that I will end on— we need more sapphic books on shelves! This author did a fine job at building up a /mostly/ believable love story between the two main characters, and I adore their dynamic.
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