Length8h 43m
About this audiobook
Adrian Stockwell and Ezra Cherevin both battle the fallout from their broken families. Yet each one's strategy is as different as each one's past. Adrian's childhood was left void by apathy; Ezra's upended by violence. The written word soon becomes their therapy, their escape. This shared passion for literature is the vehicle that brings them together.
But their journey is filled with personal and familial potholes. Can these two young men carve out a life together by learning to navigate a sea of challenges? And can the people in their lives do the same?
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (129)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length8 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: Pens & Swords
2Part 1: Aubade: Chapter 1: Muses
3Part 2: Ezra
4Chapter 2: Amid the World
5Chapter 3: First Day
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6Chapter 4: The Innocent Ones
7Chapter 5: Leslie
8Chapter 6: Book of Nines
9Part 3: Adrian
10Chapter 7: Pastures of Oblivion
11Chapter 8: Then sudden waxed wroth...
12Chapter 9: Booked for the Night
13Chapter 10: The Changing, and the Guard
14Chapter 11: Obsolescence
15Chapter 12: Resonance
16Chapter 13: Deconstruction
17Chapter 14: Couplet
18Part 5: Mother and Child Reunions
19Chapter 15: Mysterious Ways
20Chapter 16: Motions
21Chapter 17: Course of a Lifetime
22Chapter 18: False Hope
23Part 6: The Ties that Bind & the Binds that Tie
24Chapter 19: R Is for Rabbit
25Chapter 20: Block Party
26Chapter 21: Rumble
27Chapter 22: Retreats
28Chapter 23: Salubrious Hours
29Chapter 24: Derailed
30Chapter 25: Benevolence
31Chapter 26: Real(i)ty
32Chapter 27: Acts of Contrition
33Chapter 28: Paths in the Dark
34Chapter 29: Beginnings
35Chapter 30: Above the Horizon
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