Length4h 30m
About this audiobook
High on a mountain in a winter storm, a tiny dog is torn from his family and swept away down a raging river.
Far across the sea, in the green mist of Fujian, two white dogs carried from nowhere by a hooded traveller are about to break out of a palace and run for their lives.
None of them know each other yet. None of them know why something keeps pulling them west, across the sea, towards a land of green hills they have never seen. But one by one, through storms and shipwreck, loss and loyalty, their paths are drawing together.
The Calling: A Tale of Tails is the dog-led prequel to the Lands of Dragons epic. It's a story of courage, grief and found family, for readers of 12 and up and for grown-ups too.
Kindness costs, but matters most. Grief doesn't have to be the end. And home isn't a place. It's the ones who walk beside you.
Also available in a 9+ Edition and a 6+ Read-Aloud Edition, so the whole family can share the same story.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Fantasy
Length4 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One: Snow Home
2Chapter Two: The Fight
3Chapter Three: The White Wanderers
4Chapter Four: The Escape from the Palace
5Chapter Five: Two Becomes Four
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6Chapter Six: Flight to the Sea
7Chapter Seven: The Midnight Sea
8Chapter Eight: The Long Road West
9Chapter Nine: The Wreck
10Chapter Ten: The Shore of Sorrow
11Chapter Eleven: The White Guardian
12Chapter Twelve: The Door That Stood Open
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