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The Brightest Light, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Jameson Adams
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Lidia Dornet
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By:
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Lisina Coney
About this listen
Forbidden. That's what they are to each other.
Maddie Stevens has never felt good enough. Not good enough to keep her parents' love. Not good enough to be independent and stop being her brother's problem. Not good enough to build the future she wants.
When she injures her ankle before a ballet audition that could change her career forever, she's convinced her life is over at twenty-one. What's the point of having dreams when they can go down the drain at any moment?
Because the universe has a cruel sense of humor, her physical therapist turns out to be a tank-shaped grouch who doesn't even seem to like her that much. It's totally unfair that, for six weeks, she's forced to look at that handsome beard and listen to that deep voice that makes her head all dizzy. Top that with the fact that he's ten years her senior, and falling for James Simmons is a recipe for disaster.
When their forced proximity makes the lines start to blur, the forbidden temptation becomes impossible to resist.
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- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn't hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services' financial evaluation, she is faced with a choice: see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate in CPS' new initiative, TeamUp. Enter Warren, a surly mechanic's apprentice attempting to get custody of his deaf fifteen-year-old brother after failing CPS' housing evaluation.
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truly such a cute story and audiobook!
- By Selina on 05-19-23
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The Lies We Steal
- Hollow Boys, Book 1
- By: Monty Jay
- Narrated by: Lucy Rivers, Grayson Owens
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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It's been months since the day we stood above that empty grave that stunk of burnt flesh and secrets. All of us were dressed to the nines, one of us wearing a wedding dress, a day that was supposed to mark the beginning of a new adventure. It marked the bitter end of our vengeance. We have done things that have marked our souls for eternity. But before we get there, we have to go back. Back to where it all started. The place I could find in my sleep.
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the pov switches were great minus the inconsistency of it
- By Anonymous User on 04-26-24
By: Monty Jay
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Gratify
- By: Katelyn Taylor
- Narrated by: Brooke Daniels, Lucas Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Becoming a godfather was a close second. Paul and Emily Clarke have been my best friends for over twenty years. We've gone through it all. We were the three musketeers. When my best friends are ripped from all of our lives, leaving behind a broken piece of themselves, I know it's up to me to put things back together.
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Gratify
- By ❤️LOVES BOOKS❤️ on 07-01-24
By: Katelyn Taylor
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Someone Knows
- A Novel
- By: Vi Keeland
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard, Aiden Snow
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end. She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the professor dead. Because she was the one who killed him.
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Unexpected Suspense
- By Lois on 06-20-25
By: Vi Keeland
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Us Dark Few
- Us Dark Few Series, Book 1
- By: Alexis Patton
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Khalani Kanes has never stood on the surface of the earth. In the underground city of Apollo, faith and dreams are as absent as the sun. She longs to visit Genesis, the infamous Domed City and the final place where humanity lives aboveground. But when Khalani is given a life sentence and thrown into prison for a theft she didn't commit, that wish shatters into oblivion.
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Um… WHATTTTT?!?
- By savanah skinner on 02-16-25
By: Alexis Patton
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Mile High
- Windy City Series, Book 1
- By: Liz Tomforde
- Narrated by: Winston James, Mari
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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Zanders: Chicago hockey isn't complete without me—everyone's favorite player to hate. I know my role, and I play it well. In fact, I thoroughly enjoy spending the majority of my game time in the penalty box before leaving the arena with a new girl on my arm each night. What I don't like is the new flight attendant on our team's private plane. She works for me, not the other way around. But I'll be sure to remind her of that, and I can guarantee, by the end of the season, she'll be begging to quit her job.
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Male narrator is hard to listen to
- By nicole on 06-09-23
By: Liz Tomforde
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Binding 13: Part One
- Boys of Tommen, Book 1
- By: Chloe Walsh
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne, Matthew Forsythe
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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His first, last and only true love has always been rugby. Until now. She's damaged. He's determined. Fate brought them together. Love binds them. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. On the rugby pitch, he's a force to be reckoned with. Primed for stardom, he's heading straight for the top. Nothing can possibly get in his way, right? Not even the shy new girl at Tommen College. The one with the sad eyes and hidden bruises. The one that distracts him like no one ever has.
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LONG but Emotional
- By Christina Garcia (@chrissygreads) on 02-17-24
By: Chloe Walsh
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HOLY HOTNESS OF A SLOW BURN!
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The story kicks off with Maddie injuring her ankle before a ballet audition and is now convinced her career, and life, is over at 21. She has always struggled and felt like she’s a burden in life. Her mother and father didn’t want her, her brother and his wife (the couple of book 1) took her in and raised her. So she’s always felt like she was a nuisance to their relationship and family life. She has a lot of self doubt and self loathing while feeling guilty of her upbringing.
During her six-week PT appointment for her injury, she meets James, her physical therapist. Later on, her friend convinces her she needs to branch out and creates an online dating profile for Maddie, then she matches with James and swipes on his profile! This kind of leads to a convo between them and it is obvious there is some tension. A bit component to this story and relationship is how he feels she’s too young for him. He really feels that age difference between them (she’s 21, he’s 30), and definitely struggles with it. I didn’t quite get his hang up on this and how much of the plot this took over. I just didn’t connect to these 2 characters as much as I enjoyed the couple or book 1. So while this couple wasn’t my favorite, I’d still continue on in the series.
CW: feelings of parental abandonment, themes of alcoholism, drugs, death.
Slow burn, age gap, mental health rep!
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