Format: Immersive.
Narrators: 🎙️ Shiloh James and Sean Masters.
Narration Style: 🎧 Duet.
Whispersync For Voice Ready? ✅ Yes.
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The Plot 💬:
This book isn’t just dark, it’s devastating. It drags you through grief, trauma, shame, and the unbearable weight of what-ifs. Something happened years ago that shattered Paige and Linc. This book makes you sit in that pain with them. This isn’t a giddy romance, it’s a slow, brutal unravelling of two people who’ve been stuck in survival mode, living half-lives in the aftermath of something too big to name, with different memories of the same event.
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Audiobook 🎧:
There are audiobooks that sound good, and then there are audiobooks that become real. This is the latter.
Sean Masters was incredible as Linc. Not once throughout the whole thing did I think, “Wow, he’s narrating this really well”. I genuinely believed I was listening to Linc process his trauma out loud. Every pause, every strained feel, every breath, every fractured sentence…he BECAME that man. It was raw and so painfully human. He. Made. Me. Sob.
And Shiloh James as Paige? Wow, she was equally unforgettable. Her voice carried every single ounce of quiet strength and grief that Paige holds in her chest. She didn’t perform the character, she breathed life into her. The trauma, the guilt, the ache, the memories that choke her before she even speaks… it all came to life through Shilo’s voice.
Together, Sean and Shilo made this story hurt in the most haunting, believable way.
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Bookish Bite:
I honestly don’t know how Larissa C. Moyer did this. How was she able to something so traumatic, so emotionally eviscerating, and still find room for softness? For something achingly beautiful between two shattered souls? It doesn’t just pull on your heartstrings, it full on rugby tackles them to the ground and keeps you there.
This isn’t about romantic tension or swoony moments. It’s about survival. About living with grief that you can’t speak of, and trauma that doesn’t fade just because time moves on. The dual timeline adds so much depth to the story as well. The reveals are sharp and perfectly timed gut-punches. And that ending? What in the actual???? I’m still recovering.
THIS BOOK IS HEAVY. CHECK YOUR CONTENT WARNINGS. But if you can hold the weight, you’ll never forget it.
Tropes:
✔️ Angst
✔️ Slow Burn
✔️ Hurt/Comfort
✔️ Touch-Averse MC
✔️ All The Emotionals
✔️ Dual Timeline
✔️ Found Family
✔️ Impossible Present
✔️ ASL Rep
✔️ Mental Health Rep
✔️ Trauma Bond
✔️ Virgin MMC & FMC
✔️ His Muse
✔️ Tortured Hero