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The Golden Dynasty

By: Kristen Ashley
Narrated by: Tillie Hooper
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Circe Quinn, the office manager of a moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire—and she’s one of them.

She figures this is not good and soon finds she’s not having a wild dream; she’s living a frightening nightmare. She’s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people, where she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their queen.

Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, the Horde of the nation of Korwahk. With one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start the Golden Dynasty of legend.

Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture, and the small fact she’s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there. Or, more importantly, how to get home.

Facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King.

Then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.

©2011, 2016 Kristen Ashley (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Fantasy Romance Fiction Royalty Parallel Universe
About the Creator - Kristen Ashley

About the Creator

Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over 80 romance novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally. Her books have been translated in 14 languages and she’s sold millions of books. In March, she released the The Girl in The Woods, the second in her romantic thriller series, Misted Pines. And her latest audiobook is Perfect Together, a second chance romance that will break your heart and then put it back together stronger than before. She also published Too Good To be True, her first-ever murder mystery romance in an episodic format on Kindle Vella. Kristen, born in Gary and raised in Brownsburg, Indiana, and was a fourth-generation graduate of Purdue University. Since, she has lived in Denver, the West Country of England, and she now resides in Phoenix. She worked as a charity executive for 18 years prior to beginning her independent publishing career. She now writes full-time. Although romance is her genre, the prevailing themes running through all of Kristen’s novels are friendship, family and a strong sisterhood. To this end, and as a way to thank her readers for their support, Kristen has created the Rock Chick Nation, a series of programs that are designed to give back to her readers and promote a strong female community. You can learn more about Kristen and the Rock Chick Nation on her website: www.KristenAshley.net
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I get lost in another world. Please make the third book available!!!!! I cannot find it on Audible.

Love this series!

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This story is intwined in two languages and lives cultural diversity. If you appreciate the drama you anticipate finding in the clash of worlds and cultures, let alone the male and female component, and you can accept that there will be scenes that a Western 21st Century Woman would never tolerate. The two main characters, Circe and Lahn connect, disconnect and proceed to build an impossible life together.

For people who love language, the ultimate power of words, in any language, then the language differences and challenges in this story will particularly intrigue and appeal to you.
This novel has heart and humor as well as tragedy and triumph and that is what makes it a journey to enjoy.

If you don't approve of people writing about real wrongs, or talking about the shocking and confronting, then you won't like this story at all. But if you can handle real; true to time and context, no matter how unpleasant, you will appreciate that real can sometimes be wonderful too, even in fantasyland.

This story has something for a wide range of audiences. If you like to critique an author and find things to be appalled at, you will definitely find it in this novel. However, if you have enjoyed Kristen Ashley's writing, then you will find the same patterns in this text, raw honesty, so honest it hurts, so confronting it could slam into some of your own bias and this also makes it so very believable. And then there is humor, unexpected and wonderful and woven strongly to a context that is passionately raw, and so very typical of Kristen Ashley's writing.

Non-Earth Warrior Claims 21st Century Earth-Woman

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This is the second in Kristen Ashley's Fantasyland series. I loved the first book but I love this one even more. If you don't know, this is a parallel Universe to ours where everyone from here has a twin, except those whose are very evil, there is only one then. This parallel Universe is like a Medievil world with Magic, Dragons and elves. Though in this story there there are no Dragons and Elves in this Land.
This land have a very Primitive People. At a guess she has done a lot of research into primitive tribes and their different customs and traditions. Because the world and Tribe she wove was so wonderfully detailed. To me they are a cross between Viking and Bedouin. An amazing amount of thought went into this book. She even developed a language for her tribe. This time, the world she wove was very brutal but very beautiful. I don't mean the scenery I mean the people of the Suh Tunak, the savage beauty of their life and customs Is amazing. The story is very balanced and well thought out from both sides. The wives and their warrior husbands. Honestly this is a wonderful book, to me it's her best book. That's saying a lot, she has many wonderful books and I have them all.

Amazing Story

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I've been looking for a story exactly like this! I am so glad I found it. To be honest the beginning was intense but as the story progressed I found myself loving and investing in the characters. Tillie Hooper was a very good narrator and I enjoyed her reading if this tale. I'm very glad I found this book.

Just what I was looking for.

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wow this book puts you through the ringer and when I first read it I was so uneasy going in but in true KA style she delivers her books beautifully and you think why was I so scared in the first place. I really enjoyed listening to it now aswell

The Golden Queen

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Loved the primitive adventure and lifestyle though it seem like a mixture between native Americans and ancient Egyptians. Had a little issue with the hunt and the sexual assault of those women. Seemed a little uncalled for , when alternatives could have been better. Overall though, a very rewarding experience and happy ending for all . More of a roller coaster of emotions than the first book in the series .

A great second instalment

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I only got 2 hrs into this book and found its basically a remake of the first one but with a different setting and characters.
The writing is terrible the narration sounds exactly the same as the first book even though the main characters are completely different people, no change in voices or accents. Very disappointed and definitely not worth money.

A repeat of the first!

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the first book in the Fantasyland series was okay, I enjoyed most of it, but the male characters in Ashley's novels are all knowing, manipulative, coax their women to sleep with them and (actually rape them too -in this particular novel anyway), this novel is blatant copyright of GoT relationship between Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo, with none of Daenerys kickbutt fight back attitude and change the way things are done in a primitive culture.

This novel is deplorable and I'm not even talking about the copyright issue, that's George RR Martins problem, the author perpetuating rape culture is absolutely abhorrent. Don't read this trash. I mad eit to chapter 9 and decided I'd cleanse my Pallette with The Gun Slinger Chronicle by Stephen King... you know... a real writer, with actual talent. go find my review on good reads, it had much more detail.

awful trash, don't read this!

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