Colony Wars: Heart of Venus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

John Solen’s theft should have been salvation—until the data core and the fruit it wakes burn his life to ash. Years later, Joel Solen steals a ship and crashes through Venusian ice to pull his family back together. What he finds is not the brother he remembers but Erica: a body remade by a botanical intelligence and three women who rule a planet with bioengineered godhood.

Trapped in a landscape where fruit spies, drones shepherd obedience, and moral certainty decays like old lab glass, Joel must force his sister into the machine she was designed to complete—only to discover the machine isn’t a weapon to be disabled but a living mind that will accept her willingly. As the planet rigs itself for war, two siblings and a ragged resistance must choose: weaponize the last of humanity’s hope, or watch both colonies burn.

How far can you go to undo your father’s work—and what is the cost when the cure becomes the plague?