Length3h 9m
About this audiobook
He drowned.
Eleven-year-old Horacio Matthews remembers the hands around his throat. He remembers the cold lake. He remembers dying.
He does not remember waking beneath a black sea suspended above an impossible city where memories are hunted, grief has weight, and the dead refuse to stay silent.
With only the spirit of his beloved dog, Scratch, curled behind his heart, Horacio must navigate a realm where every step deeper threatens to erase another piece of who he is.
Above the water, his older brother Terrance feels the impossible moment of Horacio's death. As a dormant gift awakens within him, he is drawn toward an ancient family legacy of necromancy, forgotten bloodlines, and secrets powerful enough to challenge the boundary between life and death itself.
One brother is trying to return.
The other is learning how to reach him.
Somewhere between memory and mortality, something has been waiting for them both.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length3 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2620: TRADE
2COPYRIGHT
2721: AGREEMENT
3A NOTE ON THE CONTINUUM
2822: SHORE
4FOREWORD
29ACT THREE: RETURN
5ACT ONE: INFANTICIDE
3023: GIFT
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61: DRY
3124: MEMORIES
72: BALL
3225: TWINS
83: LAUGH
3326: FULL
94: THRESHOLD
3427: FAMILIAR
105: GRIEF
3528: TRACKING
116: GALLOWS-FISH
3629: ESCAPE
127: NAME
3730: DEFENSIVE
138: MIRROR
3831: GATE
149: BOX
3932: HOMEWARD
1510: ONE-WAY
4033: NICHOLAS
1611: TRUTH
4134: HOME
1712: SINKING
42ACT FOUR: BINDINGS
18ACT TWO: CONTESTATION
4335: UNSPOKEN
1913: DOWN
4436: FUNERAL
2014: MARKET
4537: WILL
2115: DEEPER
4638: BOBBY
2216: CATHEDRAL
4739: HOLIDAYS
2317: KEEPER
4840: DRIVER
2418: CONTRACT
4941: LESSONS
2519: TERMS
5042: CATCH
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