Length1h 15m
About this audiobook
Jurdon Malone wasn’t unwanted by accident—he was unwanted on purpose.
Born to a father who never wanted to be a father and a mother who thought a baby might hold a man in place, Jurdon entered a world already stacked against him. But the real nightmare didn’t come from the man who left—it came from the man who stayed.
When his mother remarried, she brought a monster into the house.
Not a stepfather.
Not a protector.
Just a violent, drunken stranger who took out his rage on a boy who had no way to fight back.
Jurdon grew up learning how to recognize danger by the sound of footsteps, how to read the shift in a drunk man’s breathing, and how to brace his body for the blows he knew were coming. He learned what fear tastes like, what survival feels like, and what it means to look to your own mother for rescue… and see her choose a man over her child every single time.
She didn’t stop him.
She didn’t shield him.
She didn’t leave.
She watched.
She stayed.
She allowed it.
Night after night, the house shook with violence—doors slammed, furniture shattered, fists flew—and the boy at the center of it all learned one devastating truth:
You don’t have to be abandoned to be alone.
This is not a story wrapped in comfort or redemption from the people who caused the wounds. It is the story of a boy who survived in spite of them. A boy who faced death more than once, who lived through brutality no child should ever witness, who kept breathing even when the world around him was trying to break him for good.
The Unwanted Boy is a haunting, powerful journey into the kind of childhood most people never speak about—the kind that shapes you, scars you, and forces you to become your own protector long before you understand what childhood is supposed to be.
He wasn’t meant to survive the man in that house.
He wasn’t meant to rise above the mother who refused to save him.
He wasn’t meant to become anything more than broken.
But he did.
And this is his story.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length1 hr 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 3, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER ONE — THE DAY I CAME INTO A BROKEN WORLD
9CHAPTER NINE — THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED ME, AND THE SHIFT THAT FOLLOWED
2CHAPTER TWO — THE FIRST SHATTERING
10CHAPTER TEN — THE FIGHT, THE GIRL, AND THE HOUSE I COULDN’T STAY IN
3CHAPTER THREE — THE FIRST REAL MAN IN MY LIFE
11CHAPTER ELEVEN — RUNNING AGAIN, FALLING AGAIN, AND LEARNING HOW TO SEE DIFFERENTLY
4CHAPTER FOUR — THE LOSS I NEVER SAW COMING
12CHAPTER TWELVE — THE MAN I BECAME BECAUSE OF THE BOY I WAS
5CHAPTER FIVE — A HOUSE ON A HILL, A HOLE IN MY HEART
13BOOK ENDING — TO THE READER
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6CHAPTER SIX — AMBER, AND THE THING THAT COULD’VE BEEN
14EPILOGUE — THE MAN I CHOSE TO BECOME
7CHAPTER SEVEN — THE MOVE, THE LOSS, AND THE DOORWAY TO SOMETHING DARKER
15DEDICATION
8CHAPTER EIGHT — THE NIGHT THE REAL WORLD INTRODUCED ITSELF
16AUTHOR’S NOTE
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