We Came Here to Forget: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From the author of She Regrets Nothing, which BuzzFeed called a “sharp, glittering story of wealth, family, and fate,” a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses everything and reinvents herself in Buenos Aires, where she matches a man keeping dark secrets of his own.

Katie Cleary has always known exactly what she wants: to be the very best skier in the globe. As an adolescent, she leaves her home to live and train full time with her two close friends, brothers Luke and Blair. Their rich about We Came Here to Neglect: A Book father hires the best coaches money can purchase and after years of teaching, the three friends are the USA’s greatest shot at getting home Olympic gold.

But mainly because the upwards trajectory of Katie’s elite skiing profession nears its zenith, a terrifying truth about her sister turns into impossible to ignore—one that will lay damage not only to Katie’s career but to her family members and her romantic relationship with Luke and Blair.

With her life shattered and nothing left to lose, Katie flees the snowy mountainsides of home for Buenos Aires. There, she reinvents herself and meets a colorful band of ex-pats and the alluring, charismatic Gianluca Fortunado, a tango teacher with secrets of his own. This beautiful town, with its dark background and wild promise, seems like the perfect refuge, but can she actually outrun her demons?

“Searing, gripping…a complicated story of sisterhood unlike any told before” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six), We Came Right here to Ignore explores what it means to desire, to desire, to accomplish—and what’s left behind after everything disappears.