WE NEVER AGREED HOW IT BEGAN
By Maximilian C. James
Length5h 29m
About this audiobook
Daniel remembers a girl his dog liked. Anna remembers everything.
At eighteen, Anna Reed knew Daniel Mercer as the handsome older man who walked past the bakery where she worked. Nothing happened. Then she left.
Two years later, Anna returns to Alderwick with a camera, a career beginning to take shape, and no intention of being forgotten again. Daniel is forty-two, cautious, self-contained, and determined that twenty-one years between them is a fact neither attraction nor wishful thinking can erase.
Coffee becomes friendship. Friendship becomes longing. And when they finally stop pretending, they must decide whether love can make room for ambition, distance, time, and two people who remember the same beginning completely differently.
Told in alternating voices, *We Never Agreed How It Began* is a contemporary romance about memory, desire, agency, and choosing someone without making their world smaller.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length5 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1WE NEVER AGREED HOW IT BEGAN
2PART I BEFORE WE BEGAN
3CHAPTER 1 DANIEL The Girl Emily Liked
4CHAPTER 2 ANNA The Man With the Dog
5CHAPTER 3 DANIEL The Photograph
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6CHAPTER 4 ANNA The Drawer
7CHAPTER 5 DANIEL The Missing Saturday
8CHAPTER 6 ANNA London
9CHAPTER 7 DANIEL The Woman With Emily
10CHAPTER 8 ANNA He Didn't Recognise Me
11CHAPTER 9 DANIEL Coffee, Properly
12CHAPTER 10 ANNA Inconvenient
13PART II THE SECOND BEGINNING
14CHAPTER 11 DANIEL Eight More Weeks
15CHAPTER 12 ANNA The Key
16CHAPTER 13 DANIEL The Sofa
17CHAPTER 14 ANNA I Was Awake
18CHAPTER 15 DANIEL The Blue Tag
19CHAPTER 16 ANNA Our First Date
20CHAPTER 17 DANIEL A Better Reason
21CHAPTER 18 ANNA Because I Like You
22CHAPTER 19 DANIEL The Almost
23CHAPTER 20 ANNA Finally
24PART III AFTER THE KISS
25CHAPTER 21 DANIEL The Walk Home
26CHAPTER 22 ANNA His Hand
27CHAPTER 23 DANIEL A Date, Apparently
28CHAPTER 24 ANNA The Space Between
29CHAPTER 25 DANIEL Things I Hadn't Noticed Before
30CHAPTER 26 ANNA The First Night
31CHAPTER 27 DANIEL Morning
32CHAPTER 28 ANNA People Who Notice
33CHAPTER 29 DANIEL London
34CHAPTER 30 ANNA The First Time He Said It Without Saying It
35PART IV THE LIFE BETWEEN
36CHAPTER 31 DANIEL Two Cities
37CHAPTER 32 ANNA The Offer
38CHAPTER 33 DANIEL Her Boxes
39CHAPTER 34 ANNA The Photograph He Hated
40CHAPTER 35 DANIEL The Thing About Money
41CHAPTER 36 ANNA The Work With My Name On It
42CHAPTER 37 DANIEL The Other Side of Pride
43CHAPTER 38 ANNA You Have to Go
44CHAPTER 39 DANIEL The Life I Didn't Take
45CHAPTER 40 ANNA The Decision
46PART V THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
47CHAPTER 41 DANIEL Paris, Three Weeks Later
48CHAPTER 42 ANNA A Life That Fit Without Him
49CHAPTER 43 DANIEL The Thing She Didn't Tell Me
50CHAPTER 44 ANNA What Home Means
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