The Starless Sea: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From the brand new York Times bestselling writer of THE NIGHT TIME Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world-a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is definitely a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a incomprehensible book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by stories of lovelorn prisoners, essential collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his very own youth. Bewildered by about The Starless Ocean: A Novel this inexplicable book and desperate to create sense of how his own life had become documented, Zachary uncovers a series of clues-a bee, a key, and a sword-that business lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a key membership, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the top of earth. What Zachary finds in this wondering place is a lot more than just a buried house for books and their guardians-it is a location of lost towns and seas, fans who pass notes under doors and across time, and of tales whispered with the dead. Zachary learns of these who’ve sacrificed much to safeguard this world, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to protect this archive, and in addition of these who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a brutal, pink-haired protector of the area, and Dorian, a attractive, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, congested ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of the magical world, finding his purpose-in both the mysterious publication and in his personal life.

Read simply by Dominic Hoffman, with a complete cast:

Dominic Hoffman reading the Zachary Ezra Rawlins story

Dion Graham reading the Lovely Sorrows storyline

Bahni Turpin reading excerpts from the Secret Journal of Katrina Hawkins

Fiona Hardingham reading The Ballad of Simon and Eleanor

Allan Corduner reading Fortunes and Fables

Jorjeana Marie reading Another place, another time