The Ledger Beneath the Black Water
A Psychological Thriller of Memory, Guilt, and the Truth That Won’t Stay BuriedBy Derek Ash
Length55m
About this audiobook
Memory can be rewritten.
Guilt can be buried.
But some truths keep surfacing.
Cal Rusk lives alone in a stilt house deep in the Everglades, surviving by one rule: write everything down. Every detail, every change, every anomaly—because memory can’t be trusted.
At first, the inconsistencies are small. A misplaced entry. A knot tied the wrong way. Food that’s been eaten… but not recorded. Then the radio starts speaking—calling him by a name he no longer uses.
When Cal discovers a hidden cache of old ledgers written in his own hand—documents he has no memory of creating—his fragile system begins to collapse. Each page reveals a past he’s been trying to escape… and a truth he may have already uncovered once before.
As a violent storm closes in and a man from that buried past returns, Cal is forced to confront a terrifying possibility:
The reason he can’t trust his memory…
is because he made sure of it.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Horror
Length55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 29, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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