A bright, ordinary afternoon has no business feeling this much like a held breath.

Some errands are just errands—until the trust you'd stake your children's lives on starts to curdle into something you can't unthink. What do you owe the people who've always kept you safe? And how much of the terror waits out in the quiet fields, and how much is the shape your own mind keeps circling back to?

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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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