
THE ECHO OF THINGS
Young Adult Fiction,Paranormal Mystery AdventureBy Jason C. TurnerLength3h 22m
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A lost jacket. A forgotten name. A boy who never existed, according to everyone but her.
Sixteen year old Mara Voss has spent two years hiding a secret so strange she barely believes it herself: touch any object, and she sees the last clear memory of whoever held it before her. It is not a superpower. It is more like being handed someone else’s mail forever, with no way to give it back.
Then she touches a jacket in her school’s lost and found box and sees something that should not be possible: a warm, ordinary evening between two people who liked each other very much, one of them saying a name clear as a bell. Jonah.
There is just one problem. Nobody has ever heard of Jonah. Not the school directory. Not the yearbook archive. Not a single soul at school, until a boy named Dez, who feels a specific wrongness radiating off places and people that the rest of the world walks past without a second thought, tells her the jacket belongs to his cousin, who insists he has never met anyone named Jonah either.
Add Priya, who remembers every word anyone has ever said to her and forgets every face within ten minutes, and the three of them uncover something worse than a missing person. A slow, deliberate erasure, happening in real time, to someone the world is actively forgetting.
They have days before the last traces of Jonah fade for good. What follows is a breakneck road trip across three states in one dying car named Bethany, a pawnshop recorder holding the ghost of a stranger’s worst decision, a records office with a business model built on quiet, unconsented mercy, and a discovery that the person responsible for it all might be closer to one of them than any of them are ready to admit.
THE ECHO OF THINGS is a fast, funny, achingly human paranormal adventure about the gifts we are taught to hide, the mercy that is not really mercy at all, and what three teenagers with nothing but instinct, stubbornness, and one deeply unreliable car are willing to risk to make sure a person does not just quietly disappear.
Perfect for readers who love found family adventures, quietly powerful teens with small strange gifts instead of flashy superpowers, road trip mysteries with real emotional stakes, and stories that ask who gets remembered and who gets left behind.
Some things you touch. Some things touch you back.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Children's Literature
Length3 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
19Chapter Fifteen
2FOREWORD
20Chapter Sixteen
3ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
21Chapter Seventeen
4Chapter One
22Chapter Eighteen
5Chapter Two
23Chapter Nineteen
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6Chapter Three
24Chapter Twenty
7Chapter Four
25Chapter Twenty-One
8Chapter Five
26Chapter Twenty-Two
9Chapter Six
27ACT THREE: THE LAST ECHO
10Chapter Seven
28Chapter Twenty-Three
11Chapter Eight
29Chapter Twenty-Four
12ACT TWO: THE ROAD
30Chapter Twenty-Five
13Chapter Nine
31Chapter Twenty-Six
14Chapter Ten
32Chapter Twenty-Seven
15Chapter Eleven
33Chapter Twenty-Eight
16Chapter Twelve
34Chapter Twenty-Nine
17Chapter Thirteen
35Chapter Thirty
18Chapter Fourteen