{"id":7792,"date":"2025-01-30T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookhippie.com\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2025-01-31T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:26:03","slug":"and-now-we-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookhippie.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/and-now-we-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"AND NOW WE WAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chloe Gong how could you???? SPRING of 2026 is when the final book drops????<\/p>\n\n\n

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And so book two ends on a cliffhanger and we have QUESTIONS. What a wild ride! Just the escape I needed of January! Just LOVE! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chloe Gong returns with power plays, spilled blood, and lethal romance in the thrilling fantasy sequel to bestseller Immortal Longings<\/em>, inspired by Shakespeare\u2019s Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er\u2019s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She serves now as royal advisor to Kasa\u2019s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Calla knows it isn\u2019t really August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anton Makusa is still furious about Calla\u2019s betrayal in the final round of the games. In an impossible feat, he took over August\u2019s body to survive, and has no intention of giving up this newfound power. But when his first love, the beautiful, explosive Otta Avia, awakens from a years-long coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy\u2019s authority over Talin, chaos erupts. As tensions come to a boiling point, Calla and Anton must set their conflicts aside and head to the kingdom\u2019s far reaches to prevent anarchy\u2026 even if their empire might be better off burning.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Antony and Cleopatra<\/em> tells the story of a romance between two powerful lovers: Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, who rules the Roman Empire with Octavius Caesar and Lepidus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although he is needed in Rome, Antony lingers in Egypt with Cleopatra. He finally returns to Rome when Pompey, another military leader, tries to gain control of the empire. Once in Rome, Antony marries Caesar\u2019s sister Octavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Pompey is defeated, Caesar imprisons Lepidus and turns on Antony. Octavia attempts to reconcile them, but fails. Antony returns to Cleopatra. He challenges Caesar at sea, adding Cleopatra\u2019s ships to his own. When she and her navy flee in mid-battle, Antony follows, abandoning his men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antony fails in a second battle at sea. At first, he blames Cleopatra and plans to kill her. He responds to false news of her death, however, by attempting suicide; fatally wounded, he reunites with her as he dies. Faced with Caesar\u2019s plans to humiliate her in Rome, Cleopatra kills herself with poisonous snakes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coldwire
While most of society lives \u201cupcountry\u201d in virtual reality during the cold war, an ousted corporate soldier framed for treason is on the hunt \u201cdowncountry\u201d for a dangerous program\u2014one that could clear her name and change the race to rule the world.<\/em>
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Next up for Chloe Gong Reading NEXT January<\/strong> will be her new series, of which book one Coldwire, publishes November 4, 2025. I’ve already pre-ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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