Length8h 46m
About this audiobook
Fourteen years ago, she left town. He never told her why he stayed.
Licensed engineer Tamsin Okafor built the life she wanted in Chicago. Returning to Harlan Bend was supposed to be simple: inspect the town's beloved old Opera House, deliver an honest report, and leave Kansas behind again. Then she finds a dangerous roof, a deadline no one wants to move—and Beck Halvorsen.
Beck is the master carpenter who stayed, the first love who broke her heart, and the man leading the restoration. Working beside Tamsin means trusting the one person willing to tell him that loving a building won't make it safe.
As spring storms gather, disputed blueprints, a developer's plans and a time capsule sealed eighteen years ago pull them back together. Their younger selves left letters inside the cornerstone. The feelings they left unfinished may be harder to face.
Saving the Opera House will take more than hope. Loving each other again might take something braver: the truth.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Keys and Fault Lines
14The Cost of Telling
2The Work of Staying
15Below the Sirens
3What the Stamp Means
16Hands That Ask
4A Building Isn’t a Promise
17The Words Dot Kept
5The First Red Tag
18What I Called Mercy
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6The Truss and the Truth
19An Honest Record
7A Date on the Marquee
20What We Can Carry
8Salvage Isn’t Surrender
21The Town Shows Up
9Proof, Not Wishes
22A Different Kind of Stay
10The Load Path
23Ask Me Plainly
11Nothing to Prove
24The Last Inspection
12The Balcony Holds
25The Letters We Read
13A Door Left Open
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