Publisher: Vulpine Press
Published 2 years before the ground-breaking film, Metropolis is set in an advanced city of the future, built upon the exploitation of the working class. "The mediator of the head and the hands must be the heart." (quote from the text)
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Set in ancient Greece 4,000 years ago, "Amazons - Revolution" tells the story of a society where Amazon women rule as warrior queens while men are enslaved as servants and breeding stock. The protagonist, Damon, is a 25-year-old male servant who has known nothing but oppression his entire life, forced to clean, serve, and submit to the whims of his Amazon mistresses. The story begins when Queen Penthesilea publicly humiliates Damon, but this encounter awakens something within him—a realization that the Amazons, despite their claims of superiority, are mortal and dependent on their male slaves for everything from weapons to food. This revelation sparks the first flames of rebellion in his mind. Damon carefully begins organizing a resistance movement among the male servants, using the palace's hidden passages and service networks to spread his message. The catalyst comes during the brutal Festival of Artemis, where Damon witnesses Amazon cruelty firsthand and sees a gladiator's defiant final act prove that Amazons can bleed and die like anyone else. When Queen Penthesilea departs with half her forces for a military campaign, Damon seizes the opportunity to launch a coordinated uprising. The rebels successfully capture Themiscyra, but their victory is short-lived as Penthesilea returns with her army, leading to a climactic battle. The turning point comes through Hippolyta, the queen's sister, who begins to question the Amazon system of oppression after witnessing the rebels' honor and dignity. In a final confrontation, Hippolyta sacrifices herself to convince her sister that true strength lies in cooperation, not domination. Moved by her sister's dying words and the devastation around her, Queen Penthesilea chooses to end the cycle of violence. She extends her hand to Damon in a gesture of equality, beginning a new era where Amazons and men work together as equals rather than oppressors and oppressed.Show book
I’m just a pawn in a game for Mexico's wealthiest, cruelest man. Following my abduction, I find myself in the opulent home of Gaston Marques, Mexico's most feared billionaire. He's dark, he's dangerous, and he's obsessed with possessing me. I detest him and resist him, but he doesn't care. He takes what he wants, and he wants me. But then, something shifts. In this gilded cage, I see glimpses of a different side of Gaston amidst the darkness. And against all my better judgment, I find myself drawn to him, pulled in by his magnetism. Even as I push back, I can't deny his strange and powerful attraction. When my friends devise a daring plan to rescue me, Gaston lets me go. But there’s a twist. He follows me. He's determined to win me over in my world, a place where he's the outsider, not me. I tell him it's impossible, that we could never be. But love, especially one as twisted and intoxicating as ours, doesn't play by the rules. Beast is the fifth book in the Once Upon a Villain Series by Bianca Cole. This dark, billionaire mafia romance explores themes that may be disturbing to some readers. No cliffhanger and a happily-ever-after ending means this book can be read as a standalone.Show book
An unlucky girl. A secret society. Can her mother be rescued? Mallory Stone is frustrated. After four years of living on the road, the young travel blogger is annoyed that her mom still won’t let her show their faces on the internet. But Mallory discovers there is more to her bad luck with computers than she thought when she accidentally uploads the wrong photo and her mother goes missing. Struggling to figure out who she can trust, Mallory runs from a peculiar group claiming they can help her find her mother. But when she is caught and the Glitch Society insists Mallory is connected to an unusual blindness spreading in a nearby town, she fears she’s in over her head. Can Mallory unravel the mystery in town and earn her place among the Glitches, or will her mom be lost forever? Ignorance Is Glitch is the first episode in The Glitch Society noblebright fantasy series. If you like quests for fantastic relics and characters who stick together through thick and thin, then you’ll love Anna Travis’s quick and clean adventure. Buy Ignorance is Glitch to join the Society today! Publisher’s Note: While Glitch Society has adventure, suspense, chase scenes and characters in tough scrapes, there is no American swearing or sex.Show book
Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. By Grace of Julius Caesar: Melissa sent word on Monday evening that she thought we had better go round with the subscription list for cushioning the church pews on Tuesday. I sent back word that I thought we had better go on Thursday.Show book
This hotwife hopes that when her husband said anyone and anywhere, it includes multiple men. A trip to a rustic mountain cabin for a bachelorette party takes a kinky turn when Nadia is locked out of the cabin and seeks shelter with the neighbors. What could have been a disaster turns into a night of pleasure with a bunch of strangers as they line up to fill her with delight. She can’t wait to get home and tell her husband in explicit detail exactly how she was used.Show book
Greek's Bartered Bride is a marriage of convenience, deal for his diamond, Greek billionaire romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick.Billion-dollar bargain… for an on-paper wife! Odysseus Diamides never expects a warm welcome at his family’s imposing estate. Until he’s greeted by maid Grace Foster—who spent last night in his bed! He can’t allow her life to be ruined by his controlling grandfather. So the Greek barters for her freedom by making Grace his convenient bride… Odysseus’s diamond is the lifeline Grace requires. She can escape her boss and ensure her grandmother is cared for. Yet after their idyllic island wedding, Grace realizes just how cynical Odysseus truly is. Has she jumped from the frying pan into a wildfire of dangerous need? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.Show book
