What if the oldest thing you ever touched touched you back?
When Iris Calder, freshly graduated, broke, and spectacularly unimpressed with adulthood, lets her best friend drag her on a ziplining tour through the redwoods, the last thing she expects is... a conversation. With a tree.
Not just any tree - Thalen, a thousand-year-old spirit who's on the verge of becoming something more. He's ancient, ethereal, and, he also blurts out phrases that sound like Shakespeare got stuck in a forest for a millennium.
Iris should laugh it off. She should keep job-hunting, keep paying down her student loans, keep pretending she's fine. Instead, she keeps going back - first for answers, then for him.
What starts as sarcasm and disbelief twists into a bond that blurs the line between human and something else entirely.
Supernatural
Magic
Nature
Coming of Age
Healing
Mystery
Chosenone
Journey
Slow Burn
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ (5.0) (2)
GenreFantasy, Romance
Length27 mins
Publish dateSep 22, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - Thalen
4Chapter 4 - Shortcut
2Chapter 2 - The Return
5Chapter 5 - Gladness
3Chapter 3 - Cup of Tea
About the author
K. Nocturne
K. Nocturne crafts stories where dark academia meets epic fantasy—worlds of crumbling libraries, haunted bloodlines, and power that always demands a cost. Her work explores the razor-thin line between ambition and ruin, weaving tales of rivals-turned-allies, dangerous legacies, and the quiet intensity of bonds forged in shadow.
When not conjuring worlds of ashes and echoes, K. Nocturne can be found haunting coffee shops with too many notebooks, cataloguing obscure mythologies, and chasing the idea that the right book can feel like a spell.View all audiobooks by K. Nocturne
