The Vanished Queen

By: Lisbeth Campbell

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Tristan Morris, Vanessa Moyen

A stunning blend of vivid fantasy and political drama, The Vanished Queen is the timely story of a young resistance fighter working to overthrow a totalitarian ruler’s regime of terror and lies.

“[G]ripping…this is the novel the world needs now.” (Kate Heartfield, Nebula Award finalist and author of Aurora Award-winning novel Armed in Her Fashion)

Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed she was assassinated by a neighboring ruler, but her people knew the truth: The king had disappeared her himself.

Now the queen’s disappearance is hardly a memory - merely one among many horrors the king’s reign has wrought. But when Anza, a young student impassioned by her father’s unjust execution, finds the missing queen’s diary, she is inspired by Mirantha’s words - she joins the resistance group to overthrow the king.

Prince Esvar is the second son of an evil king. Trapped under his thumb and desperate for a way out, a chance meeting with Anza gives him the opportunity to join the resistance. Together, they might have the leverage to move against the king - but if they fail, their deaths could mean a total loss of freedom for generations to follow. In this dangerous game of court politics, one misstep could lead to a fate worse than death.

Set in a world where resistance is as dangerous as it is important, The Vanished Queen is a “big, dark, intricate novel” (Lousia Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches) about the courage and sacrifice it requires to take on a tyrant.

©2020 Lisbeth Campbell. Sonnet #212 ©2017 J. M. McDermott. Used with permission. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

the male narrator ruins this book.

goodness i wanted to like this book, i feel that if you read it instead of listened to it you will like it, but man... the male narrator is just awful. he gave me a headache and i just couldnt continue listening..