The Conscript Who Came Back
A Military Science Fiction Galactic War RomanceBy Tomas Bristow
Length11h 54m
About this audiobook
Jori Vance does not want to be a soldier. He is one anyway, nineteen and unremarkable, surviving his conscription on a garrison moon where the Union is losing politely.
Ilse Okpara stitches soldiers back together and tells them the truth while doing it. When she pulls Jori off a table with a lung full of propellant, she informs him he is not allowed to die on her shift.
They get eleven days.
Then the front collapses, Jori's unit is cut off, and he starts walking — two hundred kilometers, four survivors, one radio. What he finds at the end of that walk saves four thousand people and costs him six weeks in a camp for telling the truth.
Ilse is sent somewhere worse for asking the wrong questions. She leaves with the answers.
Two people, two secrets, one station, one deal. The kind you make with your own name.
A galactic war romance about the small, stubborn distance between coming home and being sent back.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length11 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Jori
88. Ilse
22. Ilse
99. Ilse
33. Jori
10Ten
44. Jori
11Eleven
55. Jori
12Twelve
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66. Jori
13Epilogue
77. Jori
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