Length7h 48m
About this audiobook
Ethan Quek once found two and a half million dollars hiding in a file nobody else had opened. He has never wondered what he might be missing outside of one.
Then a parcel lands on his doormat. It smells of salt and old butter, and it's addressed to his block, his floor and his door, but not his street. Inside is a letter from Yangzom, who runs a guesthouse in a Himalayan valley with no road in and no listing online. Every season, half her guests arrive on the wrong day. After six years of writing every date down twice, she'd like someone who notices things to tell her why.
The asphalt stops nine hours short of Chumig. The rest is walking. Up there, a stone stair won't stay counted, and a mapmaker's ink refuses to draw any road nobody has walked.
Ethan packs a laptop and a return date. The valley isn't especially interested in either.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Fan Fiction
Length7 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credit
2Chapter 1: The Numbers Before The View
3Chapter 2: A Box That Leaks
4Chapter 3: Where The Asphalt Stops
5Chapter 4: Nine Hours By Foot
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6Chapter 5: The Hanging Hearth
7Chapter 6: Nothing That Tabulates
8Chapter 7: One Stone On The Cairn
9Chapter 8: The Stair That Will Not Stay Counted
10Chapter 9: Seven Hundred Steps Down
11Chapter 10: Forty Minutes Of Market
12Chapter 11: The Valley That Buys Its Barley
13Chapter 12: What The Fox Was Doing
14Chapter 13: Two Calendars
15Chapter 14: Frost On The Inside Of The Glass
16Chapter 15: Arguing The Water Downhill
17Chapter 16: The Lake Runs An Hour Late
18Chapter 17: Three Days Of Warm Rain
19Chapter 18: The Gap Cannot Be Deduced
20Chapter 19: Walking It
21Chapter 20: What It Costs To Hold A Road
22Chapter 21: The Bell Rung Early
23Chapter 22: What He Left The Phone For
24Closing Credit
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