Divine Burdens

Welcome to the far-future City, a post-scarcity Utopia with no disease, no war, and no want. The people worship AIs as gods through ritualized sex, and in return, the gods provide anything anyone could ever want from Providers in every room. But in this City, the gods demand a price for their benevolence. They make use of those who worship them, for in a place with no scarcity and no money, the only thing you have to bargain with is your body. Three very different women embark on three separate paths to become the Sacrifice to, and Avatar of, their gods. The lives of each of these women will be forever altered by their experiences.

Eunice Hung has a degree in creative writing from University of Leeds, UK. She was published in Raconnaissance: An Anthology, Vol One in 2011 and in the nonfiction anthology Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain, published in 2016. She is the co-author of the first book in this series, The Brazen Altar. Franklin Veaux is an established fiction and nonfiction writer. His first nonfiction book, More Than Two, has sold more than 70,000 copies and been translated into several languages. His first novel, Black Iron, received glowing starred reviews in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. He is the co-author of the first book in this series, The Brazen Altar.