Bound by Betrayal
Arranged Marriage Betrayal Second Chance RomanceBy Kathona DeRose
Length9h 12m
About this audiobook
The rod dips where the water is, not where you wish it were. That is the first thing my father taught me, out on the dry Uldholm ground with a witching fork in my two hands, and it is the only thing that has never once lied to me. People lie. The pretty surface creek lies, running full in a wet spring and gone to gravel by July. But the deep water runs silent and true under all of it, and if you are still enough, and honest enough, you can feel the pull come up through your wrists and know exactly where the truth is buried.
I felt it the day Elias Stancombe drove back into Tanager Landing, and I hated that I felt it at all.
Seven years ago his name went on the paper that took my family's ranch, and the whole county has called him the man who betrayed the Uldholms ever since. I have called him worse. Now the creek has run dry, a bottling company wants our aquifer, my father is in the ground, and the bank's clock is counting down to the day the ranch is sold out from under me. And the one man I cannot forgive is the one man whose name is bound to mine on the note, the only man who can help me save it, and the only man my traitorous hands go quiet and honest around when I reach for the old hate and cannot find the pull.
Forty days. That is what we have before the water hearing. Forty days of him on my land, close enough to touch, while I dowse for a deep well that could break the company's grip, while the story I have believed for seven years starts to run shallow and false, and the real truth of what he did the night my father lost everything runs deeper and darker than I ever let myself feel for. He did not betray us the way I was told. And the man who did is still out there, and he wants the water, and he is not finished.
Told in two voices across a ticking countdown, this is a slow, hard-earned enemies-to-lovers reckoning about the difference between the surface story and the deep water, and about what holds when the drought comes and the clock runs out.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, General Fiction
Length9 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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LanguageEnglish
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