Length9h 23m
About this audiobook
THE LEDGER
The shop has always been there.
It doesn't advertise. It has no reviews, no digital presence, no record of ever having been registered as a business. It appears differently to everyone who finds it — a lost-and-found, an antique shop, a music store with instruments that have been played rather than displayed. The man behind the counter is always two seconds ahead of wherever you are.
The terms are simple. You give something of emotional weight. You receive something of equal weight in return. The mechanism doesn't judge. It doesn't reward. It balances.
Detective Jason Webb finds the shop on day six of a missing persons case — a twelve-year-old boy named Sam Reeves, gone without trace. What begins as an investigation becomes something else entirely: a nineteen-day reckoning with what people give away, what they think they're getting back, and what the world does with the difference.
Because the mechanism returns things perfectly.
The world does the rest.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length9 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE LEDGER
21Part Two: What It Costs
2Part One: What They Give
22CHAPTER NINE: THE CASCADE
3PROLOGUE: BEFORE THE CITY
23CHAPTER TEN: ELENA
4MARIA
24CHAPTER ELEVEN: WHAT WEBB HAD LEFT
5THREE YEARS LATER
25CHAPTER TWELVE: SAM
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6ACT ONE: THE BEGINNING
26THE KEEPER'S NIGHT (EXPANDED)
7CHAPTER ONE: THE CASE
27CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE FUNERAL SUIT
8CHAPTER TWO: THE WATCH
28CHAPTER FOURTEEN: DAY TWENTY
9THOMAS — SIX WEEKS LATER
29CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE TRUTH
10CHAPTER THREE: THE PATTERN
30Part Three: What Remains
11CHAPTER FOUR: MARCUS
31CHAPTER SIXTEEN: WHAT THE KEEPER TOLD HIM
12CHAPTER FIVE: IVY
32CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: JENNIFER
13IVY — EIGHT MONTHS LATER
33CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: AFTERWARDS
14CHAPTER SIX: MAGGIE
34CHAPTER NINETEEN: STILL HERE
15MAGGIE — THE RETURN
35CHAPTER TWENTY: TWO YEARS LATER
16CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SPIRAL
36CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE MECHANISM CONTINUES
17GRACE
37THOMAS — THE WATCH
18ELENA — FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND AFTER
38CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE LAST VISIT
19NADIA
39EPILOGUE: THE LEDGER
20CHAPTER EIGHT: CLARA MARSH
40A NEW CUSTOMER
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