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This Gilded Abyss

Science fiction adventure with sapphic romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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This Gilded Abyss

By: Rebecca Thorne
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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Death waits beneath the waves as two estranged lovers face their demons...

Sergeant Nix Marr left her dark past buried beneath the sea. Then Kessandra, the people’s favourite princess (and Nix's much-loathed ex), recruits Nix for a covert mission. Their goal – to investigate a massacre in the under-water city of Fall. Nix tries to refuse, but finds herself boarding a luxurious submersible as Kessandra's bodyguard. After all, Kess always gets what she wants.

As they descend to the city, Kessandra reveals the chilling truth. They aren’t investigating a massacre, but the trigger that caused it – a sickness that turns victims into mindless killers. And when a royal passenger is murdered, it’s clear the infection is on board . . . and no one on the submersible is safe.

Trusting Kessandra, despite her lies, will become Nix's only hope.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Rebecca Thorne, This Gilded Abyss is an intense, utterly thrilling science fiction adventure for fans of Arcane, BioShock and Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb



Rebecca Thorne’s Can’t Spell Treason without Tea was a Sunday Times HB fiction bestseller w/c 06/05/2024

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Critic Reviews

Thorne skillfully weaves together horror, mystery, and sapphic romance to create an un-put-downable fantasy. Hannah Whitten fans should snap this up (Publishers Weekly)
This blood-soaked SFF novel grabbed me from the first page and still hasn’t let go since I finished it (GoodReads 5* Reader Review)
Wow. This was intense and made me go through so many different emotions . . . The twists shocked me and the romance was captivating, a slow burn second chance with a lot of tension (GoodReads 5* Reader Review)
Enemies to lovers, tragedy, and zombies in a submersible? Yes, please. I had chills (GoodReads 5* Reader Review)
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