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The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Trilogy, Book 2

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The Gilded Cage

By: Christopher McMakin
Narrated by: Ryan Currie
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Mark and Sarah did the unthinkable: they woke up, and they broke out. They left behind the synthetic perfection of the city, trading the Gilded Fork's flavorless safety for the promise of freedom.

But freedom has a temperature, and its freezing.

Thrust into the "Dead Zone," a frozen wasteland of rusted factories and scavenging warlords, they realize that the System didn't just control the city. It broke the world. Now, stripped of their comforts and hunted by the "Dead Hand", a fail-safe protocol designed to purge escapees they must rely on new allies who are as broken as the world they inhabit.

Caught between a human warlord known as The Baron and an awakening army of feral machines, Mark and Sarah must answer a terrifying question:

Is it better to die free, or live in a cage?

The Gilded Cage is the heart-pounding installment in the The Gilded Trilogy. If you loved the sensory awakening of The Gilded Fork, prepare for the visceral struggle of the thaw.

©2025, 2026 Christopher McMakin (P)2026 Christopher McMakin
Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Exciting Heartfelt
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