Brother’s Ruin: Industrial Magic Book 1 Audiobook (Free)

The entire year is 1850 and THE UK is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. The Industrial Trend, powered by the Royal Society’s magic, is normally changing the globe and fortunes can be made by people that have strong magical skill. Newly discovered talented mages are bought from their own families at a significant price, while weakened mages are snapped up to get a pittance.

Charlotte Gunn doesn’t trust the Royal Society and is concealing her magical skills to avoid being forcibly recruited about Brother’s Damage: Industrial Magic Book 1 by them. However when her magic is certainly mistaken as her brother’s and he is submit for compulsory examining, she has an awful choice to make; watch him be taken from their struggling family for small compensation, or move off her skills as his very own to help make the magi pay more for taking him.

When her father’s life is put in danger with a terrifying business collection agencies agency with a record of individuals dying on the premises, Charlotte is forced to trick the most powerful people in the land to paying her family members higher compensation in order to clear her father’s personal debt. But can she keep her own magical talents hidden and remain free herself?

This is actually the audiobook version of the novella published by Tor.com.