Length5h 27m
About this audiobook
Moses Van Buren is the boy nobody at Marcus Crowe Academy looks at twice. Seventeen. Confirmed shadowkin. Ranked dead last — no transformation, no ability, just a name that echoes the world’s most famous hero and a life spent invisible.
Then a shadow finds him. Not his own — something older, furious, the unfinished will of a murdered woman searching for someone strong enough to carry her vengeance. The night it chooses him, everything he thought he knew about himself stops being true.
With a world-famous telepath who treats ethics as optional, and the academy’s untouchable golden prodigy who never expected to be his friend, Moses is pulled into a war bigger and older than any of them are ready for. A hate group thought destroyed is rising again. Someone in power is arming it. And something behind it all isn’t human.
Moses just wanted to matter. Now he has to decide what kind of person he becomes once he finally does.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreFantasy, Action and Adventure
Length5 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Chapter Two: What We Are
3Chapter Three: First Night
4Chapter Four: Career Day
5Chapter Five: Something in the Dark
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6Interlude: What the House Forgets
7Chapter Six: The Note
8Chapter Seven: Everyone of Those Bastards
9Chapter Eight: Vengeance
10Chapter Nine: Family Bond
11Chapter Ten: Assessments
12Chapter Eleven: Strength Reflection
13Chapter Twelve: Tomorrow We Serve
14Chapter Thirteen: Tribute
15Chapter Fourteen: Questions
16Chapter Fifteen: Ben Grimsly
17Chapter Sixteen: Golden Tiger
18Chapter Seventeen: The Senator's Game
19Chapter Eighteen: Shadowkin 101
20Chapter Nineteen: Judge, Jury, and Executioner
21Interlude: What the Aliens Made
22Chapter Twenty: Bonds, Armor, and Pay
23Chapter Twenty-One: Recruits
24Chapter Twenty-Two: Confess
25Chapter Twenty-Three: Earn That Trust
26Chapter Twenty-Four: Calm Yourself, Child
27Chapter Twenty-Five: Vanish
28Chapter Twenty-Six: Zenith Academic
29Chapter Twenty-Seven: A-Rank
30Chapter Twenty-Eight: Bonds Between Us
31Chapter Twenty-Nine: Two Left Feet
32Chapter Thirty: The Dance
33Chapter Thirty-One: Through the Door
34Chapter Thirty-Two: The House on Dockside
35Chapter Thirty-Three: What's Left of Byron
36Chapter Thirty-Four: Lord Rivas
37Chapter Thirty-Five: Ten Seconds
38Chapter Thirty-Six: Five Seconds, Then None
39Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Crater
40Chapter Thirty-Eight: What Vera Knows
41Chapter Thirty-Nine: Julian's Gift
42Chapter Forty: What the Earth Remembers
43Epilogue: What Remains
44A Preview of The Exhumans
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