Length7h 26m
About this audiobook
Every autumn, the powerful gather at Eichholm Estate. By Sunday, someone has disappeared.
Mara Holt believes she has been invited into the room where futures are made. The people are polished and frighteningly discreet. They know her work, her weaknesses, and how to make an invitation feel like salvation.
Her father, Konrad Reiner, knows what waits behind it. For thirty years he has kept the records of a circle that survives by turning guilt into loyalty and violence into procedure. He has spent his life looking away from the clearing at the forest’s edge.
But this time, the name in the file is his daughter’s.
Dusk: Mara is asked to cross a line no one can uncross. To belong, she must do the one thing that will make her useful forever. To refuse, she must run into a forest built to make people vanish.
The Clearing is a dark conspiracy thriller about elite secrecy, inherited guilt, and systems that know exactly how to erase a human being.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Psychology
Length7 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Novel
1915 · The Signal
2Preface
20Part Three — The Hunt
3Part One — The Invitation
2116 · The First Night
41 · The Matter
2217 · As Expected
52 · What She Wanted
2318 · The Other
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63 · The Memory
2419 · The Architecture Within
74 · The Open Door
2520 · What the Hands Do
85 · Maneuvers
2621 · No One Who Would Be Missed
96 · Acceptance
2722 · Designated
107 · No Turning Back
2823 · The Tree Line
11Part Two — The Estate
2924 · The Bridge
128 · The Arrival
30Part Four — The Readable Version
139 · The Administrator
3125 · Order
1410 · The Guests
3226 · Whoever Believes That
1511 · Precautions
3327 · The List
1612 · The Price
3428 · The Reckoning
1713 · The Conveyance
3529 · What Remains
1814 · The Line
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