The Penalty for Overdue Books: Final Notice: Your Life is Due

Bella Vex

Length2h 42m

About this audiobook

Her life is overdue, and tonight she has to pay. Rachel Dankworth finds her name on a library due date card. The fine? Her entire existence. “You shouldn’t be alive,” the card whispers at midnight. “You stole someone else’s story.” Nineteen years ago, Rachel survived falling through ice when she should have died. Now the Emberwick Library has come to collect—with interest. Text crawls beneath her skin like living tattoos. Her body flickers transparent at the edges. She’s being erased, word by word, paragraph by paragraph. “You’re nineteen years overdue,” warns Dexter, a library assistant who moonlights as a necromancer. “That’s a debt you can only repay with your life—and even that won’t cover the interest.” With a relentless enemy determined to reclaim her story and transfer it to someone else, Rachel faces a terrifying truth: her memories, her dreams, her very identity—it’s all just a clerical error the library intends to correct. And the collection department has sharp teeth.

Mystery

Supernatural

Thriller

Magic

Identity

Found Family

Dark Fantasy

Audiobook details

GenreHorror, Fantasy

Length2 hrs 42 mins

Publish dateMar 3, 2025

LanguageEnglish

1Title Page

87. Margin Notes

21. The Night Shift

98. The Plot Hole

32. Overdue Notices

109. Unauthorized Revision

43. Borrowed and Owed

1110. Critical Annotation

54. Pending Collection

1211. Final Circulation

About the author

Bella Vex

Bella Vex is the dark alter ego of USA Today bestselling romance author Rachelle Ayala. Bella’s work explores themes of identity, transformation, and the price we pay for belonging. She believes that the best horror stories are born where passion and fear intersect.View all audiobooks by Bella Vex