Mayan Ruins
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Mayan Ruins
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Narrated by:
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Jane O'Neill
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By:
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Brandon Hastings
About this listen
She survived history. Now she’s making it.
Mayyada al-Rahbani was seven when she sprinted through the date orchards of Dujail while Saddam Hussein executed her family. Her escape made international headlines as she navigated a war zone and found refuge in Kuwait City. Renamed Maya and raised by adoptive North American parents, she spent the next four decades running—from journalists, intimacy, her marriage, and into the anonymity of strangers’ beds.
But everything changes when Maya performs a life-saving abortion on a thirteen-year-old girl. Eager to fuel his presidential ambitions, Texas Governor Wade Callahan targets her for prosecution, reigniting the media firestorm about her past. As her life collides with her ex-husband and the fractured family of her patient, Maya is forced to face everything she has spent a lifetime outrunning.
Mayan Ruins blends psychological complexity, erotic sensuality, and contemporary moral dilemmas into a layered story of personal reckoning. It explores how bodies become battlegrounds, how sex can be both shield and sword, and how the stories we tell ourselves can imprison us—or set us free.
©2026 Brandon Byars (P)2026 Brandon Byars