Slow River – Nicola Griffith Free Audiobook

Written by Nicola Griffith
Read by Martha Harmon Pardee

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long
gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone.
Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world’s most
powerful families…and now she was nobody, and she had to hide.

Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her
in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again
and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family,
and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had
escaped…but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception,
and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she
loathed.

Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner…and
risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself
again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead
woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future.

But to start again, Lore required Spanner’s talents–Spanner, who needed
her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed
to play Spanner’s game one final time, she found that there was still
the price of being a Van Oesterling to be paid. Only by confronting
her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who
she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to
be…