Gilded

By: Sam Steele

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She was auctioned like property.
Now she lives like a question he can’t stop asking.

She was supposed to be just another unclaimed prize—displayed, muzzled, and sold to the highest caste. But he didn’t purchase her for pleasure. He chose her for potential. A puzzle he couldn’t decode.

Trapped in a golden hive where every glance is currency and every touch is ritual, she is studied, tested, observed. She’s meant to submit. To bond. To breed.

But she’s not built for obedience.

And he—disciplined, dispassionate, dangerous—is starting to crack.

As forbidden threads form between them, the hive begins to stir. Priests whisper of instability. Caste law tightens like silk around the throat. And the deeper Aevek dives into Liora’s memories, the more he begins to question everything the hive was built to protect.

He was born to rule.
She was born to resist.
And their bond might ignite a revolution.

A dark, intimate sci-fi romance filled with alien ceremony, psychological heat, and slow-burning defiance.