The Hundredth Queen Audiobook (Free)

As an orphan ward from the Sisterhood, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she’s an unlikely candidate for a good servant’s position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her singular dream is to keep living in peacefulness in the Sisterhood’s hill temple.

But a visit from your tyrant Rajah Tarek disrupts Kalinda’s lifestyle. Within hours, she is ripped from the comfort and ease of her home, set on a desert trek, and purchased to fight on her behalf place among the rajah’s ninety-nine wives and many courtesans. Her just solace will come in the company of her guard, the stoic but kind Captain Deven Naik.

Faced with the threat of a tournament towards the death—and her developing affection for Deven—Kalinda provides only one hope for escape, and it is based on an arcane, forbidden power buried within her.

In Emily R. King’s thrilling fantasy debut, an orphan gal blossoms into a warrior, summoning courage and self-confidence in her fearless goal to upend custom, overthrow an empire, and reclaim her life as her personal.