The Shore of Women

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In a postnuclear future, women have built a new world on the ruins of the old. It's a world of vast walled cities where women live apart from men, who roam the wilderness outside. Women control all science and technology, determined that men must never regain the power to destroy Earth. And they also control the men by teaching them to worship female beings. Love between men and women is scorned; reproduction is a loveless act.

One young woman, Birana, is cruelly expelled from her city for her mother's crime, condemned to wander in the primitive and violent world of men, her very survival threatened daily. Outside the city, a young man named Arvil longs for the time when he will be summoned to the city he regards as a holy place. When he discovers Birana--a clearly human woman, not a Goddess--his faith in what he has been taught is shaken, but a stronger emotion begins to grow in its place. Birana knows that in order to survive she must now put her life in Arvil's hands, but she must also fight her growing attraction to him, a feeling she has always been taught was unthinkable. As the two roam a violent world where death can come at any moment, they search for a place where they can be safe from both the women of the cities and from men, while struggling against the feelings they have awakened in each other. Can Birana find love with one she has been taught to despise? If she reveals the secrets that keep men forever controlled by women, will she betray her own kind? Or will love overcome the barriers between the sexes?

With its vivid backgrounds, high adventure, intricate detail, and epic scope, The Shore of Women is a powerful love story that will grip readers from the first page to the last.

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