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Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

Enemies-to-more. Forced proximity. A queen who rules by magic and the one man she can’t disarm. Mandzee Hamartano didn’t ask to be queen. She didn’t ask for the peace treaty that’s turned half her city against her, the mage tournament that’s about to put her life on the line, or the envoy from Armonguard who’s moved into her palace and refuses to leave. She certainly didn’t ask to fall for him. Lovell Dunn is King Gidon’s royal envoy, tasked with one job: shadow the queen, keep the treaty, and report back.

In a kingdom of shadows and ruin, I dared to love a cursed king. We've come to Irridain Court in disguise, clinging to a final thread of hope: a talisman that can break the curse before it kills Lore. Without it, he dies. No more stolen nights. No more whispered vows. No more us. The talisman...

The price of love is loss. We all pay it eventually In every life Some moments are too painful to be endured. Some moments will break you if you let them. And yet I cant afford to let anything break me, because we have one chance to win this war. One chance to create a better life for everyone...

Trick I - The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear - each as dead as the other. Trick II - From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of 12 feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back - a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done.

Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal - but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene...

Morganium has a new queen. She has no idea what she’s doing. The Prince of Jarvirium is dead. A skeletal army has seized Morganium. King Jarva has fled across the sea, leaving the continent of Aloysius in turmoil. And now, somehow, Momo sits on the throne. Some call her a usurper. Others, a savior. But the Holy Resistance, Jarva’s most zealous followers, call her their next target. With enemies on all sides and the polls against her, Momo has to campaign like her life depends on it — because it does.

To put his princess back on the throne, Trent Marston has faced down a corrupt king, shadow creatures, devil mages, and even an assassin from a nightmare realm. With his enemies now reeling and his allies aligned, Trent makes ready to lead the final strike that will liberate his nation. Yet the peril facing Trent's people is far worse than he thought, and a mass murder of millions is far closer than he knows.

Kings and Queens History Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of classic history and war narratives. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

Torn between two worlds . . . Separated from the man she loves . . . Fighting to save her throne and her best friend . . . Sarielle has never been more lost. Kingdoms will fall, hearts will be broken, and the future of Aureon will never be the same. QUEEN OF STARS AND SHADOWS is the third and...

Kings and Queens Biography Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of biographies, memoirs, and lives of notable people. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

Trent Marston has survived situations that would have killed a lesser man. But when an unexpected tragedy steals away a member of his loyal tribe, he’ll stop at nothing to get her back. With the aid of Emerald, a warrior and tracker with hundreds of years of battle experience, and the rest of his loyal and beautiful tribe, Trent will finally take the war to the devils who’ve threatened his realm.

A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place. Surrounded by whispering courtiers and shifting alliances, Anna refuses to remain a passive pawn. When the court takes her children to raise them away from her, the young queen draws her line in the sand.

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the...

She was the mother of Henry VIII and wife of Henry VII, but who was Elizabeth of York? Raised as the precious eldest child of Edward IV, Elizabeth had every reason to expect a bright future until Edward died, and her life fell apart. When Elizabeth's uncle became Richard III, she was forced to choose sides. Should she trust her father's brother and most loyal supporter or honor the betrothal that her mother has made for her to her family's enemy, Henry Tudor? The choice was made for her on the field at Bosworth.

Triona Sinclair was never meant for an ordinary life. A spark of something powerful has always lived within her—silent and still, until the moment it finally woke. A moment of fire and ruin. With her world shattered, Triona escapes into the wilds of Scotland—flanked by four allies, each loyal in their own way. But none of them challenge her quite like Finn MacGregor.

After the sudden death of her boyfriend, Vera would have been happy to spend the rest of her days curiously unnoticeable, washing bed sheets and cleaning toilets in present day Glastonbury. But when the strange new guest at her hotel reveals himself to be Merlin and drags her back to seventh century Camelot, a place she knows only from legends, only Vera (or Queen Guinevere as Merlin calls her) can right the course of history and save Arthur's kingdom from the will of a power-hungry mage.

It's late 1936, and King Edward is in turmoil, having fallen in love with the scandalously divorced and even more scandalously American Wallis Simpson. He wants to marry her but knows that doing so will jeopardize his crown. Edward confides in his dear friend Darcy, Georgie's husband, and the couple agree to hide Wallis in their home while Edward figures out what to do. But unbeknownst to Georgie and Darcy, Sir Hubert, the owner of the estate, has given a film crew permission to shoot a motion picture about Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn on the grounds

Queen has been a: gang leader, construction worker, mortician, waitress, retail manager, taxi driver, semi-pro wrestler, roller derby referee, stock transfer agent, burlesque dancer, and long haul trucker.... She is also one of the most powerful witches on the planet. Completely feral. Possessed by a spirit older than time....