Ember Falls Audiobook Novels & Stories

A sound echoed somewhere below them, footsteps, slow and deliberate, climbing the spiral stair. Oren went rigid. "Someone's coming." "I thought you said the second watch wasn't due for another hour." "It isn't." His voice had dropped to barely a whisper, urgent now, eyes scanning the shelves for anywhere to hide the book, anywhere to hide themselves. "Which means whoever that is isn't here on the academy's business." The footsteps grew closer, unhurried, confident in a way that guards on a routine patrol never quite managed, and Sera's stomach dropped as she recognized the rhythm of them a half second before a shape rounded the spiral stair into the dim light of the reading room.

Exactly what Clara needed. “You brought more,” the agent said, taking the USB drive from her hand. Clara nodded. “Everything from the last forty-eight hours. The hallway. The guest room. The things they said to each other when they thought no one was listening.” The agent plugged the drive into her laptop. Clara stood there watching the files load. She did not sit down. She did not want to get comfortable with what she was doing. The agent clicked on one of the newer files. The audio started immediately. Emelia’s voice, breathless and broken. “I cannot stop wanting you. Even now. Even knowing my mother is out there trying to destroy us.”

he murmured, “that you’re not ready to hear the truth yet.” Elara’s pulse thundered painfully. Footsteps echoed behind her, neighbors coming down the hall, the sound bouncing down toward the street. The stranger’s eyes flicked upward. Panic flashed across his face for the first time. “Elara” Then a voice broke through the night. “Elara Voss!” A shout. A man’s voice. Deep. Familiar. Her blood froze. Damien’s men. The stranger moved instantly. “Elara, RUN!” She didn’t think…

A terrible thought struck him, and his lips trembled as he asked, “Her aunt… What’s her name?” “Iris Arnold…” Jeremy felt the world spin, his heart seizing painfully. Everything finally made sense. “Book me the next flight to Albania immediately!”

Nyra’s POV Emberfall. The name rolled through me with heat and ash both. It sounded beautiful and dangerous. Like a place that had already burned and decided to keep standing. My father’s territory. My mother’s old crown. The place where people might call Elaine Queen and traitor in the same breath. The place where Tobias Viremont waited, if he was still there. The place that might hold answers or more wounds.

Click. “Valley Center for Youth Services, how can I help you?” Meekey’s voice caught in her throat. She had no plan for this moment. “Hi,” she said, trying to steady herself. “Is Natalie Cole in?” “Just a moment.” Hold music crackled through the line. Then— “This is Natalie.” Meekey’s knees buckled slightly. Her voice—deeper now, older. Confident. It wasn’t the voice of a child. “Hello?” Natalie asked again.

The whole flight was pretty uneventful. I’d slept through most of it and it was only the hour and a half flight after our layover did I pull out my book to read. Once we landed, Ember was groggy and completely out of it. I volunteered to drive and she accepted, not that I would have allowed her behind the wheel if she didn’t, but it gave her a chance to feel okay with sticking me with the three hour drive. Once we got about ten minutes outside the pack, she perked up. Grabbing her phone, she dialed a number and put it on speaker. The phone rang twice before someone picked up. That someone being Brittany St. James.

"A freaking coffee shop?" Emily screeched over the call. "You've got to be kidding me." "No, Em, I consider it worthy. You would have loved it if you were here. It's still growing, but I'm so proud," Calista replied, holding her phone firmly while walking out of her portable office in the coffee shop.

Nevertheless, others heard what she said. Soon, everyone started whispering. The TV presenter who was interviewing Elle turned to her co-worker "Did I hear right? She said Ethan Cephas is a ghost. Does she mean ghost in a dark world or another way of calling him invincible?" "Of course, I heard what she said. Everyone did, but then, it might be her way of calling him invincible since this is the first time he's making his presence known" Her co-worker whispered back.

I do not think that I would feel like this from just blood loss. Do you think that you can make it back to the valley? I don’t— Rica! Can you hear me? Emily cried as she felt them falling toward the ground. The last thing that she heard was Gabriel’s loud roar and then everything went black.