Rhea’s Game

Paris Book Festival Runner-Up · A Psychological Survival Thriller

By: Dan Uselton

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Rhea’s Game: A Psychological Survival Thriller

Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for exceptional storytelling and a unique premise
Previously published as Chloroform Wars — Runner-Up (Wild Card), Paris Book Festival. Revised edition with two additional chapters.

They don’t execute rebels anymore — they broadcast them.
The cameras never blink. The audience never looks away.

In a near-future America, teenagers are forced into televised survival competitions where obedience is rewarded and resistance is punished publicly. Winning doesn’t mean freedom. It means staying useful to the audience. Losing doesn’t mean death — it means humiliation, punishment, and erasure, all in front of millions.

Rhea Schwartz has spent her whole life being ignored. Now the system has finally noticed her — and it wants her broken for entertainment.

Ryker Vale signed up for the program for one reason: money. He never expected to become trapped inside a machine built to control people through spectacle.

Matched against each other and broadcast nationwide, Rhea and Ryker face a brutal choice: play the roles they’re assigned… or turn the show into a rebellion the whole country can’t ignore.

Dark, brutal, and uncomfortably plausible, Rhea’s Game is a dystopian psychological survival thriller about power, surveillance, and what happens when suffering becomes entertainment.

Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Black Mirror.

Content note: This book contains themes of sexual assault and psychological abuse.