Length9h 33m
About this audiobook
The shop has always existed — a lost-and-found, a dispensary, a doorway in a city,waiting for whoever is standing outside to decide what they’re willing to give for what they want most. The ledger runs to six hundred volumes. The scales always balance. The mechanism never asks if the price was fair.
When twelve-year-old Samuel Reeves vanishes from a New York sidewalk, Detective Webb picks up a case with no leads, no ransom, and no body — until he finds a door that shouldn’t exist, and a man behind the counter who is always two seconds ahead of him. Webb has three weeks, and nothing left to trade but himself.
Around him, others have already paid: a father who bought back his drowned daughter with the warmth of his wife’s love. A musician who traded connection for genius. A woman who has spent thirty years standing outside the shop, keeping the only record of what it costs.
A novel about what we’ll give up to get back what we can’t afford to lose — and what’s left once we’ve given it.
Audiobook details
GenreOther, Mystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 20, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Part One: What They Give
3PROLOGUE: BEFORE THE CITY
4CHAPTER ONE: THE CASE
5CHAPTER TWO: THE WATCH
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6CHAPTER THREE: THE PATTERN
7MARIA
8THE CARPENTER — THREE YEARS LATER
9CHAPTER FOUR: MARCUS: THOMAS — SIX WEEKS LATER
10CHAPTER FIVE: IVY
11CHAPTER SIX: MAGGIE: IVY — EIGHT MONTHS LATER
12CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SPIRAL: GRACE
13CHAPTER EIGHT: CLARA MARSH
14ELENA — FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND AFTER
15MAGGIE — THE RETURN
16Part Two: What It Costs
17CHAPTER NINE: THE CASCADE
18CHAPTER TEN: ELENA
19CHAPTER ELEVEN: WHAT WEBB HAD LEFT
20CHAPTER TWELVE: SAM: THE KEEPER’S NIGHT
21CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE FUNERAL SUIT
22CHAPTER FOURTEEN: DAY TWENTY-ONE
23CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE TRUTH
24Part Three: What Remains
25CHAPTER SIXTEEN: WHAT THE KEEPER TOLD HIM
26CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: JENNIFER
27CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: AFTERWARDS: MAGGIE — THURSDAYS
28CHAPTER NINETEEN: STILL HERE: GRACE — AFTER
29CHAPTER TWENTY: TWO YEARS LATER
30CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE MECHANISM CONTINUES
31THOMAS — THE WATCH
32WHAT WEBB CARRIED
33CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE LAST VISIT
34EPILOGUE: THE LEDGER: A NEW CUSTOMER
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