Some mornings the whole house feels like something you've already broken, and no amount of cold tea will warm it back.

A day of small failures — unwashed dishes, sulking children, a silence you can't apologize your way out of — grinds on under a sky that keeps spitting rain. But exhaustion has a way of dulling the senses right before the ground gives way. What do you owe the people who trusted you, and how far does the reckoning reach?

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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