This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On the dying world of Zothique, a young goatherd named Xeethra strays through a hidden cave into a forbidden garden and tastes a single blood-dark fruit – and with it, the memories of another life come flooding in. He is no longer a poor shepherd, but Amero, king of fabled Calyz by the eastern sea. Driven half-mad by a sovereignty he cannot prove, Xeethra abandons his flock and wanders the wastes in search of a realm that may be nothing but a dream. When at last he finds Calyz a leper-haunted ruin, a shadow rises to offer him everything he longs for – at the price every soul on Zothique knows too well. But in this dying world the cruelest curse is not the bargain, but memory itself.