When Ada discovers a hidden drawer filled with her late father’s letters, she uncovers a version of him she never knew. The quiet, practical man she grew up with once wrote openly about fear, love, and the dread of becoming ordinary. As she reads his words and confronts her own doubts as a writer, Ada begins to see how silence can mask tenderness and how responsibility can reshape a person without erasing them.
Tender and reflective, this novel explores inheritance, ambition, and the quiet ways families misunderstand and remake one another. It asks what we keep hidden, what we choose to preserve, and how the past continues to shape what we build next.
Family
Grief
Coming of Age
Identity
Healing
Memory
Psychological
Hidden Identity
Journey
Exploration
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ (4.0) (1)
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length42 mins
Publish dateMar 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
4Chapter 4
2Chapter 2
5Chapter 5
3Chapter 3
6Chapter 6
About the author
Kyle Hambster
Kyle Hambster is a storyteller and craftsman of atmosphere, drawn to the quiet tension between technology and memory. With a background in film restoration and an obsession with mechanical design, Rickel writes about the places where progress and nostalgia collide where gears, circuits, and human hearts still turn in sync. The Geometry of Gears is his debut work, a meditation on time, purpose, and the enduring beauty of things made by hand. He lives surrounded by vintage machines and unfinished manuscripts, always chasing the sound of a perfect click.View all audiobooks by Kyle Hambster
