When you buy from Audible, you are licensing the file. If Amazon loses the rights, your book vanishes. If you download the full audiobook from a VK link (usually a .zip file of 50+ MP3s), you own it forever. No Wi-Fi. No login. That permanence is the "better" they are searching for.

Prince Rhen is cursed to relive his eighteenth year repeatedly. At the end of each season, he transforms into a vicious monster that destroys everything in its path unless he can fall in love.

: Brigid Kemmerer’s ability to continue the series and write new books depends on official sales and library borrows.