WHAT THE WOLF KEEPS
Gothic Horror / Supernatural Suspense NovelBy Betty S. Keating
Length4h 34m
About this audiobook
Some inheritances come with a deed. Others come with a debt.
Nora Vance has spent her career preserving other people's histories assessing, cataloguing, deciding what's worth saving. She never expected to inherit one of her own. When her estranged mother dies, Nora drives four hours into a town her phone can't find on any map: Hollow's End, population small, population watchful, a town so folded into its ridgeline that it gets six hours of daylight on a generous day. She comes for a house and a signature. She does not expect a locked room at the end of the hall, a voice in the dark that says her mother's name like an old lover, or a single paw print pressed an inch deep into hardwood that should never have taken an impression at all.
The town knows something Nora doesn't. Everyone does. Ida Wilkes, who runs the funeral home and, more quietly, everyone's business. Constance Marrow, matriarch of the town's oldest family, who has been waiting thirty-one years for this exact homecoming. And Elias Marrow, the town's doctor, who has spent eleven years alone trying to sabotage a bargain his own bloodline signed a hundred and thirty-five years ago and who recognizes, the moment he meets Nora, that she may be the only chance he's had in six years to actually stop it.
Because in 1891, four founding families made a deal with something in the trees. Prosperity, protection, and certain inherited gifts in exchange for a debt that was never meant to stop being paid. Nora's mother ran from that debt thirty-one years ago and never once looked back. Now the debt has come looking for her daughter instead, and Hollow's End is quietly, patiently, arranging itself around collection.
As Nora starts pulling at the threads the town has spent generations refusing to touch missing names scrubbed from the record, a ledger no one will name, a mother who left in a hurry but tidied first — she has to decide how much of what she's inherited she's willing to carry, and how much she's finally willing to refuse. Because some bargains don't die with the people who made them. They wait. Patient. Hungry. In the trees at the edge of town, for the next name in an unbroken line to come home.
Atmospheric, slow-building, and richly folkloric, What the Wolf Keeps is a gothic horror novel about inherited debts, small-town complicity, and the cost of finally saying no to a bargain you never agreed to with a quiet, hard-won romance woven through the
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Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Horror, Children's Literature
Length4 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
18CHAPTER FIFTEEN
2FOREWORD
19CHAPTER SIXTEEN
3ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
20CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
4CHAPTER ONE
21CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
5CHAPTER TWO
22CHAPTER NINETEEN
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6CHAPTER THREE
23CHAPTER TWENTY
7CHAPTER FOUR
24CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
8CHAPTER FIVE
25CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
9CHAPTER SIX
26CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
10CHAPTER SEVEN
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
11CHAPTER EIGHT
28CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
12CHAPTER NINE
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
13CHAPTER TEN
30CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
14CHAPTER ELEVEN
31CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
15CHAPTER TWELVE
32CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
16CHAPTER THIRTEEN
33CHAPTER THIRTY
17CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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