Length13h 1m
About this audiobook
The nation was ready to have a woman lead. It just wasn't ready for her.
Callie Tate grew up on eighty dry acres in Millbrook, a dying farm town where nobody expected anything from a poor girl with a drunk father. At twelve, she learned her smile was worth money. At thirteen, she stood in a creek bed and watched her neighbor's barn burn. Nobody ever asked how.
Thirty years later, she's the most beloved woman in Corland. She brought water to a drought. She pulled an old man off his roof in a flood. She told a tired country that it could finally rest, and that she would handle everything.
So they let her.
But a schoolteacher once saw soot on a little girl's boots. A reporter has spent years filling a notebook with names. And Callie's own daughter has been watching her mother since she was four years old.
Everyone who gets close to the truth about Callie Brandt ends up gone. The question is who will be next.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length13 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Nation Was Ready
26Chapter 26: Three Days
2Chapter 2: Dirt Poor
27Chapter 27: Tessa
3Chapter 3: Sunday Words
28Chapter 28: The Arrangement
4Chapter 4: The Pruitt Barn
29Chapter 29: Pell Falls
5Chapter 5: Soot
30Chapter 30: The Pruitt Boy
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6Chapter 6: The Brake Line
31Chapter 31: Black Ice
7Chapter 7: Dale
32Chapter 32: God Cleared the Path
8Chapter 8: The Brandt Boy
33Chapter 33: Westhaven Works
9Chapter 9: Margaret
34Chapter 34: A Name in a Notebook
10Chapter 10: Mrs. Brandt
35Chapter 35: Her Son
11Chapter 11: The Heir
36Chapter 36: Overheard
12Chapter 12: Dry Years
37Chapter 37: The Soft One
13Chapter 13: Seen
38Chapter 38: The Letter
14Chapter 14: Her Shadow
39Chapter 39: The Flood
15Chapter 15: County Commissioner
40Chapter 40: Ashby Fumbles
16Chapter 16: Water Rights
41Chapter 41: No One's Running Mate
17Chapter 17: Margaret's Last Night
42Chapter 42: Rhea
18Chapter 18: The Profile
43Chapter 43: Whitlock's Threat
19Chapter 19: Whitlock
44Chapter 44: Whitlock's Fall
20Chapter 20: The List
45Chapter 45: Back to Millbrook
21Chapter 21: Let Callie Handle It
46Chapter 46: The Farm Girl
22Chapter 22: Empty Chairs
47Chapter 47: Plain Talk
23Chapter 23: No Polish
48Chapter 48: The Promise Card
24Chapter 24: Cedar Falls
49Chapter 49: The Question
25Chapter 25: Leverage
50Chapter 50: Elias Grant
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