
Length8h 50m
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She was supposed to be a trespasser he frightened off the mountain inside a week.
Garrett Wainwright buried his brother in October. A flat crack in the woods that did not belong there, Caleb dropping mid-stride — four-legged one heartbeat, two-legged the next — and blood going black in the moonlight while Garrett's own shift tore out of him like a bad breath.
He has spent every season since keeping humans off this land and keeping his own kin from asking the questions that would require answering.
Then Lydia Hargrove comes up the fire road with a map she should have burned.
She is chasing an echo — a sound recorded on this mountain that no animal makes and no machine explains. She has no idea what she has walked into the middle of. She has no idea the cabin she rented is where the last outsider learned exactly what it costs to be seen here.
Garrett means to scare her off. Instead he starts learning the shape of her days. What she eats. Which trail she takes. How long she sleeps.
He tells himself he is keeping watch. That this is about the mountain.
It stops being about the mountain somewhere around the night he realises he would tear out the throat of anyone in his own bloodline before he let them near her.
There is a Rite of the Silver Veil and an apology from a broken mouth. There is a cliff where the answers die, the weight of a territory nobody wants to inherit, and a sister who has been wearing two names for longer than anyone noticed.
*He needs to be bound to us in a way that can't be broken with a signature on a confidentiality agreement.*
*You want to bite her.*
*I want to offer.*
Then the truth arrives, and it burns the way truth does here.
*You killed my father. You lied to me. You're about to tell me you did it for the greater good, and I'm about to—*
He is out there fighting. Everyone is out there, bleeding, while she stands in a storage room holding a knife that belonged to a dead man and does the arithmetic of a siege.
He is not letting her leave this mountain.
Not ever.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Map I Should Have Burned
3Chapter 2 - The Taste of Iron and Cedar
4Chapter 3 - The Girl Who Chases Echoes
5Chapter 4 - The Cabin Where She Learned to Bleed
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6Chapter 5 - What It Costs to Be Seen
7Chapter 6 - The Lies We Feed Our Kin
8Chapter 7 - Rite of the Silver Veil
9Chapter 8 - The Apology of a Broken Moon
10Chapter 9 - The Second Time the Alpha Bared His Throat
11Chapter 10 - The Cliff Where Answers Die
12Chapter 11 - The Weight of a Territory
13Chapter 12 - The Sister Who Wore Two Names
14Chapter 13 - The Truth That Burns Like Silver
15Chapter 14 - The Calculus of a Siege
16Chapter 15 - The House of Old Needles
17Chapter 16 - The Journal That Opened Graves
18Chapter 17 - The Reservoir That Tasted of Moonlight
19Chapter 18 - The Bombs Beneath Our Feet
20Chapter 19 - The Lie that Almost Won
21Chapter 20 - The Trade That Costs Everything
22Chapter 21 - The Fever That Does Not Break
23Chapter 22 - The Girl Who Became the Moon
24Chapter 23 - The Price of a Seal Without a Letter
25Chapter 24 - The Severance That Could Not Sever Us
26Chapter 25 - The Bite That Chose Love
27Epilogue
28About the Author
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Delia Marsh
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
