
Whispering Dead
A chilling YA supernatural thriller about a haunted estate, a sealed room, a deadly family secret, fierce sibling love, and a curse that refuses to stay buriedBy C. L. VanceLength6h 44m
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When Addie was small, a dead girl reached through the closet door.
Pale fingers that bent at angles that weren't quite right.
Black hair plastered to her skull. A dress dripping river water onto the carpet.
And where her eyes should have been, smooth pale skin, like a doll someone had taken a knife to.
Then a whisper that wasn't sound.
Addie, I know your secret.
Her mother stood in the kitchen that night and said the only thing that mattered.
"You can't have her. She's mine."
Years later, the cold is back.
It slides under doors like water. It pools across the carpet. It turns her breath to white.
Now Addie has a brother, Leo, who clutches her sleeve and can't ever know what she sees in the dark.
She has a town that trades whispers about the decaying estate at its edge.
And she has a curse that didn't end with the grave — it only learned to wait.
The drowned girl wants something.
She said so the first night, through teeth too small and too sharp.
The locked room behind the estate's one lit window remembers.
And the secret Addie's mother died protecting is buried under the floorboards, waiting to be read aloud.
A dove with a hidden truth. A locket that won't stay shut. A journal in the floor that changes everything.
Every truth she uncovers costs someone she loves.
Every door she opens lets the cold in deeper.
And when the dead finally speak, they don't beg.
They accuse.
She failed her brother once.
She won't survive failing him again.
Now Addie has to choose between the silence that keeps her family safe and the confession that might be the only thing that frees them — before the whispering dead come to collect what they are owed.
Whispering Dead is a chilling YA supernatural thriller about a haunted estate, a sealed room, a deadly family secret, fierce sibling love, and a curse that refuses to stay buried.
Perfect for readers who love atmospheric YA horror, haunted houses, vengeful ghosts, dark family secrets, and stories where the scariest thing is the truth. A haunting standalone thriller.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult
Length6 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
14Chapter 13 - The Collapse of Trust
2Chapter 1 - The Secret My Brother Can’t Know
15Chapter 14 - The Confession I Denied
3Chapter 2 - The Girl Who Dare Me
16Chapter 15 - The Wounded Alliance
4Chapter 3 - The Carving That Remembered
17Chapter 16 - The Doctor’s Hidden Truth
5Chapter 4 - The Lawman’s Cross
18Chapter 17 - The Locket’s Secret
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6Chapter 5 - The Daring Game
19Chapter 18 - The Journal in the Floor
7Chapter 6 - The Liar’s Smile
20Chapter 19 - The Reading That Changes Everything
8Chapter 7 - The Flooded Altar
21Chapter 20 - The All Is Lost Silence
9Chapter 8 - The Pact of Silence
22Chapter 21 - The Final Descent
10Chapter 9 - The Dove’s Truth
23Chapter 22 - The Door of Atonement
11Chapter 10 - The Brother I Failed
24Chapter 23 - The Forgiveness That Frees
12Chapter 11 - The Mouth of the Earth
25Chapter 24 - The Silence That Speaks
13Chapter 12 - The Betrayer’s Mask
26About the Author