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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Last Livestream
Chapter 3: — Smart Love, Smart Control
Chapter 4: — The Responder Moves In
Chapter 5: — Roxi Ascends, Corrine Rebels
Chapter 6: — The Midpoint: Crimes Become Policy
Chapter 7: — Pressure Points
Chapter 8: — Collapse and Revelation
Chapter 9: — The Final Stand
Chapter 10: — A New Dawn
Description
The Marriage Act is a near-future thriller about a Britain split into “New” towns for compliant Smart Marriages and “Old” towns for everyone else. Couples who upgrade gain powerful benefits—NHS+ fast treatment, better schools, tax breaks, and gated communities—but in exchange, an AI assistant called Audite listens, evaluates, and escalates marital “risk” through counseling, live-in Relationship Responders, and Family Courts that can dissolve marriages by force.
As backlash grows, a vlogger tries to replace a fallen influencer, a wealthy wife joins an underground resistance, a widower refuses the state’s cold rules of grief, and a Relationship Responder hides a monstrous obsession behind bureaucratic authority. Their stories collide with political propaganda, Deepfakes, and an education “reform” even darker than marriage surveillance—until the truth erupts in public and the nation breaks open.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who like “five-minutes-into-the-future” dystopian thrillers driven by tech ethics and political manipulation.
- Fans of multi-POV tension where private relationships become state battlegrounds.
- Readers who enjoy Black Mirror-style premises with high emotional stakes and a twist-heavy third act.