The Hearth Ledger
A LitRPG Portal FantasyBy Cassian Rowe
Length6h 55m
About this audiobook
The last parcel of the night weighs two pounds, seven ounces: a small wooden box for a widow in Ashfen who has waited three weeks for her son's remains. Elian Voss has worked the night window at the Kaldrast post office for six years, and the mail train leaves at four.
So when the ink on his brass cancellation drum turns silver, moving like mercury and spiraling counterclockwise around the rim like a ledger being unwritten, he skips all twelve procedures the manual lays down for misbehaving postal equipment, thinks about the widow, and presses the drum to her box anyway.
The box turns to snow. The post office stretches thin as paper held over a flame, and Elian lands waist-deep in a drift outside an inn called the Hearth and Hollow, the drum glowing in his hands like a banked coal. Maren Kald, the short, broad innkeeper with a poker in her fist, tells him he's late; she took him for her new lodger from the south road. Over hot spiced cider she explains where he is. Kaldrast.
But her Kaldrast has no post office, only a courier station by the south gate that has been shut since the Compact was signed, and no one comes or goes without the Guild's leave. Elian has spent six years getting other people's parcels where they need to go. Sending himself home is another matter.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length6 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
18The Cellar Hearth
2The Night Window
19The Guildmaster's Doubt
3The Hearth and Hollow
20The Coldest Night
4The Runner
21The Ledger Burned
5The Ember Guild
22The New Compact
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6The Ledger of Names
23The Hearth-Keeper's Oath
7The Cold Snap
24The Spring Thaw
8The Stamp-Canceling Drum
25The Guild's End
9The Midpoint Reversal
26The Inn Reborn
10The Hidden Hearth
27The Traveler
11The Guild's Shadow
28The Hearth-Network
12The Ration Book
29The Long Winter's End
13The Long Cold Festival
30The Ledger of Warmth
14The Break-In
31The Fire Remembers
15The Central Hearth
32About the author
16The Guild's Reckoning
33Series hook
17The Names on the Page
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