The Scorpion Rules

  • Author: Erin Bow
  • Narrator: Madeleine Maby
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 10:21:07
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Synopsis

In the future, the UN has brought back an ancient way to keep the peace. The children of world leaders are held hostage—if a war begins, they pay with their lives.

Greta is the Crown Princess of the Panpolar Confederacy, a superpower formed of modern-day Canada. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. The hostages are Talis’s strategy to keep the peace: if her country enters a war, Greta dies.

The system has worked for centuries. Parents don’t want to see their children murdered.

Greta will be free if she can make it to her eighteenth birthday. Until then she is prepared to die with dignity, if necessary. But everything changes when Elian arrives at the pretecture. He’s a hostage from a new American alliance, and he defies the machines that control every part of their lives—and is severely punished for it. Greta is furious that Elian has disrupted their quiet, structured world. But slowly, his rebellion opens her eyes to the brutality of the rules they live under, and to the subtle resistance of her companions. And Greta discovers her own quiet power.

Then Elian’s country declares war on Greta’s and invades the prefecture, taking the hostages hostage. Now the great Talis is furious, and coming himself to mete out punishment. Which surely means that Greta and Elian will be killed...unless Greta can think of a way to save them.

Chapters

  • ScorpionRules 01 Title

    Duration: 48s
  • ScorpionRules 02 Prologue

    Duration: 03min
  • ScorpionRules 03 Ch1

    Duration: 19min
  • ScorpionRules 04 Ch2

    Duration: 22min
  • ScorpionRules 05 Ch3

    Duration: 21min
  • ScorpionRules 06 Ch4

    Duration: 16min
  • ScorpionRules 07 Ch5

    Duration: 10min
  • ScorpionRules 08 Ch6

    Duration: 25min
  • ScorpionRules 09 Ch7

    Duration: 22min
  • ScorpionRules 10 Ch8

    Duration: 25min
  • ScorpionRules 11 Ch9

    Duration: 13min
  • ScorpionRules 12 Ch10

    Duration: 19min
  • ScorpionRules 13 Ch11

    Duration: 20min
  • ScorpionRules 14 Ch12

    Duration: 22min
  • ScorpionRules 15 Ch13

    Duration: 15min
  • ScorpionRules 16 Ch14

    Duration: 23min
  • ScorpionRules 17 Ch15

    Duration: 21min
  • ScorpionRules 18 Ch16

    Duration: 16min
  • ScorpionRules 19 Ch17

    Duration: 23min
  • ScorpionRules 20 Ch18

    Duration: 19min
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