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From award-winning screenwriter of The Hunger Games Billy Ray comes an immersive and breathtaking enemies-to-lovers epic romance about war, loyalty, and the power that love has to save... or destroy.
The year is 2425 and London is underwater.
Three hundred years ago, rising oceans drowned a vast majority of the English Isle. London is now a jungle of dead skyscrapers and submerged streets.
Fighting over the scraps of a world none can remember, two Houses -- the Crowns and the Rogues -- have been at war for three centuries.
Rafe is the Rogue army's fiercest captain. Jule is the Crown army's deadliest soldier. They are vicious and merciless, courageous and beloved by their Houses. They are sworn enemies.
And then they fall in love.
It's a death sentence. But their love is all-consuming. As Rafe and Jule try to keep each other alive in their war-torn world, they are forced to confront new, horrifying threats to their loved ones while the hatred between their Houses only grows.
When mysterious foreigners appear on their shores, the warring factions may destroy each other, unless their two most ruthless soldiers can become beacons of peace and possibility, showing their people a different way, and save them all.
From the award-winning screenwriter of The Hunger Games comes a visceral and breathless forbidden romance about sacrifice, the neverending cycle of violence, and fiery, all-powerful love. Billy Ray is one of modern Hollywood's preeminent screenwriters. He has won a Writers Guild Award and was Oscar-nominated for his screenplay Captain Phillips. Past works as a writer or writer-director include The Hunger Games, Richard Jewell, Shattered Glass, The Last Tycoon, and The Comey Rule for Showtime, an award-winning adaptation of James Comey's 2018 bestseller A Higher Loyalty. Billy also hosts the podcast "StrikeTalk" for Deadline Hollywood. Billy lives in Los Angeles.
The year is 2425 and London is underwater.
Three hundred years ago, rising oceans drowned a vast majority of the English Isle. London is now a jungle of dead skyscrapers and submerged streets.
Fighting over the scraps of a world none can remember, two Houses -- the Crowns and the Rogues -- have been at war for three centuries.
Rafe is the Rogue army's fiercest captain. Jule is the Crown army's deadliest soldier. They are vicious and merciless, courageous and beloved by their Houses. They are sworn enemies.
And then they fall in love.
It's a death sentence. But their love is all-consuming. As Rafe and Jule try to keep each other alive in their war-torn world, they are forced to confront new, horrifying threats to their loved ones while the hatred between their Houses only grows.
When mysterious foreigners appear on their shores, the warring factions may destroy each other, unless their two most ruthless soldiers can become beacons of peace and possibility, showing their people a different way, and save them all.
From the award-winning screenwriter of The Hunger Games comes a visceral and breathless forbidden romance about sacrifice, the neverending cycle of violence, and fiery, all-powerful love. Billy Ray is one of modern Hollywood's preeminent screenwriters. He has won a Writers Guild Award and was Oscar-nominated for his screenplay Captain Phillips. Past works as a writer or writer-director include The Hunger Games, Richard Jewell, Shattered Glass, The Last Tycoon, and The Comey Rule for Showtime, an award-winning adaptation of James Comey's 2018 bestseller A Higher Loyalty. Billy also hosts the podcast "StrikeTalk" for Deadline Hollywood. Billy lives in Los Angeles.
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"Rafe and Jule were destined to kill each other in battle, as their warring factions-the Rogues and the Crowns-have fought over a flooded London for centuries. However, fate has other plans for them. Zoe Boyle brings these characters-and the London of 2425-to life. Her enthusiastic narration perfectly depicts the circumstances that befall them. Boyle imitates the sound of whizzing arrows, the crack of a discharging rifle, the heaving breaths of a desperate swimmer, and more. Her voice cracks after heartbreaking deaths, and it soars when the characters experience love.
Boyle's emotional performance immerses listeners in this world of war and ever flowing water. (Dystopian. 13-18)"
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