Before The Well
A Sapphic Slow-Burn Frontier RomanceBy Jane Brown
Length4h 2m
About this audiobook
Some stories begin with gunfire.
This one begins beside a well before sunrise.
A ranch widow who has spent three years learning how to survive silence discovers a wounded stranger half-frozen in the frost outside her home. By morning, there are stitches in the stranger’s side, fresh coffee on the stove, and a tension neither woman is prepared to name.
Ruth Calloway was only supposed to stay long enough to heal.
But the isolated ranch begins to feel dangerous in a different way. The kind of dangerous that comes from learning someone’s routines. Their grief. The sound of their footsteps in the dark.
Outside the ranch, men are searching for Ruth and the papers hidden inside her coat.
Inside it, something quieter is happening.
Something neither woman knows how to survive once it starts.
Before The Well is a slow-burn sapphic western romance filled with longing, intimacy, sharp dialogue, frontier tension, and the kind of emotional ache that lingers long after the final chapter.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Action and Adventure
Length4 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: Before the Well
2Chapter 2: The Woman in the Coat
3Chapter 3: Cartography of a Strange Room
4Chapter 4: Coffee and Counting Exits
5Chapter 5: The Shape of the Papers
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6Chapter 6: The Carved Horse
7Chapter 7: One Boot at Midnight
8Chapter 8: Not Tonight
9Chapter 9: Voss Sends Riders
10Chapter 10: What the Land Remembers
11Chapter 11: Letters to the Living
12Chapter 12: The Nearest Town
13Chapter 13: Solomon Greer Writes Back
14Chapter 14: The Argument
15Chapter 15: Preparations
16Chapter 16: The Road to Abilene
17Chapter 17: Morrow Creek Burns
18Chapter 18: Solomon Greer
19Chapter 19: Colonel Harlan Voss
20Chapter 20: The Night Before
21Chapter 21: The Delivery
22Chapter 22: Ida Reese Argues
23Chapter 23: Caldwell
24Chapter 24: What Stays
25Chapter 25: The Well at Morning
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