Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 805660 Title: Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Author: Catherine Simone Gray Narrator: Catherine Simone Gray Format: Unabridged Length: 08:51:00 Language: English Release date: 02-25-25 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Social Science Summary: What happens when survivors become mothers? As seen in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity—a mother’s memoir of healing trauma, finding pleasure, and redefining the joys of her body Proud Flesh is a gripping memoir—tender and fierce, incisive and whip-smart—that reckons with the questions what happens when survivors become mothers? and what if we give half the attention to understanding our pleasure as we have to our pain? By the time Catherine Simone Gray was expecting her first child, she was ready to get a 4.0 in motherhood: the best baby books, the months of parenting classes, the loving, supportive partner—mother cum laude. But when she found herself struggling—to birth, to bond, to simply be with her son—she came up against a long-buried truth: the sexual violence and emotional abuse perpetrated against her in an earlier relationship created a wound that hadn’t really healed. It’s the kind of wound that society—and the cultural annals of mainstream motherhood—don’t prepare you for: the kind that makes itself known, on its own time, and demands to be seen before it can be tended. Proud Flesh chronicles how birth and postpartum helped heal Gray from trauma, thrive in her marriage, and find surprise in the joy of her body. Told in two parallel narratives, Gray weaves her postpartum healing journey with the story of her young womanhood, sharing the arc of an abusive relationship and the healthy love she built in its aftermath. A memoir of trauma, survivorship, brightness, and pleasure, Proud Flesh is a testament that we can pursue pleasure alongside our pain, build trust in our relationships, and learn to embrace our eroticism—and that motherhood can be an aid, rather than a hurdle, to this transformation. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 775554 Title: Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture Author: Nicholas Powers Narrator: Nicholas Powers Format: Unabridged Length: 07:17:00 Language: English Release date: 01-21-25 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Social Science, Naturopathy & New Age Summary: How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma—an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation The mainstream has long seen psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege: money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment with drugs without risking arrest or worse. Despite psychedelics’ deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultural practices, most psychedelic spaces have excluded Black people and other People of Color. But psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine are not just for a rarefied liberal elite—and they’re definitely not just for white people.  Combined with quality therapy, safe and equitable access, and full-scale societal healing, psychedelics are a shortcut to liberation, dignity, and power—the “Promised Land” as envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr. Risqué? Sure. But that doesn’t make it any less true. In Black Psychedelic Revolution, Dr. Nick Powers charts how psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma. He shows how these medicines unlock a return to one’s self, facilitating an embodied experience of safety, peace, and beingness otherwise disrupted by whiteness—and explores psychedelics’ ability to transform individual wellness even as they transcend it. Drugs taken with therapy can heal. But drugs taken with a social movement can heal a nation. Powers unpacks how the Drug War, racist policing, mass incarceration, and community gatekeeping intersect to sideline POC—and specifically Black people—from the psychedelic movement. He moves past “making space” for Black psychedelia to assert instead the need for a full-stop reclamation and revolution: one that eschews psychedelic exceptionalism, breaks down raced and classed constructs of “good” vs. “bad” drugs, realizes true, full-scale healing, and lives into a free, strong, and independent Blackness. With an Afrofuturist lens, Black Psychedelic Revolution takes utopian politics seriously, re-centering social justice around ownership of historical trauma and giving People of Color the authority to define a new humanism. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 773647 Title: Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving is Hard Author: Jessica Graham Narrator: Jessica Graham Format: Unabridged Length: 08:26:00 Language: English Release date: 01-14-25 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Psychology Summary: Wise and witty essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer neurodivergent trauma resolution guide Jessica Graham In an unapologetic look at living well with chronic illness, writer and meditation teacher Jessica Graham offers smart, funny, raw, and mindful insights on untangling—and embracing—the messy realities of being a human alive on this planet today. Graham gives us permission to accept care—and accept that it’s ok to want care. They weave together personal stories and practical wisdom, grounded in their queer, chronically ill, and neurodivergent identities. They offer their take on managing symptoms, getting creative, setting boundaries, and healing from ableist tropes like “you don’t look that sick” and “we’re all a little ADHD.” Graham also shares vulnerable personal history: the adverse childhood experiences that rewired their body and brain. The workaholism and addictions that kept their pain lying just below the surface. How illness and trauma intersect to obscure the knowledge that we’re each enough, wholly as we are. Graham explores the parts of chronic illness life that don’t get enough airtime: how can we center sex and pleasure when pain gets in the way? How can we live well…while living through late-stage capitalist hell? How can we come into relationship with our pain without falling prey to self-blame, magical thinking, or toxic positivity? Wise and embodied, fearless and necessary, Being (Sick) Enough is both a wild awakening and a love letter to your whole self: the pains and suffering, joys and brightness, and vital connections that hold each of us as we navigate what it means to be here, like this, right now. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 747370 Title: Until I Decide Author: T.I. Lowe Narrator: Delilah Rosewood, James Anderson Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 06:45:00 Language: English Release date: 01-07-25 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction Summary: Lee Sutton has made a lot of choices in his life that seem to come back to haunt him all at once. After hitting the top successfully and then spiraling out of control, the motorcycle bad boy resolves to make changes. Easier said than done. Especially when he meets the frustratingly beautiful Bellamy McCoy and has to decide how to handle the unexpected feelings that develop for her. Go on the self-discovery journey with Lee as he amends his wrongs and makes a resolution he never thought would come from his lips. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 757681 Title: Dirty South Author: Ace Atkins Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Length: 10:15:00 Language: English Release date: 12-24-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Summary: When music mogul Teddy Paris, a former teammate from the New Orleans Saints, visits Nick Travers and asks him to help find $700,000 taken from a rap prodigy, Nick can't turn down his friend. The missing money will pay a bounty on Paris's head that was set by a crosstown rival, a street-hard thug named Cash. Nick soon finds himself lost in the world of Gucci-lined Bentleys and endless bottles of Cristal champagne. He sets out with fifteen-year-old rap star ALIAS, seeking a team of grifters that conned the kid. When a killer hits too close, Nick takes ALIAS with him to the Mississippi Delta for the protection and guidance of Nick's mentor, blues legend JoJo Jackson, and his wife, Loretta. Soon Nick, JoJo, and another old-school Delta tough guy do battle in the Dirty South rap world where money, sex, and murder threaten to take down Paris's empire and destroy ALIAS. As cultures clash, the story winds its way through the infamous Calliope housing projects, the newly built mansions of New Orleans's lakefront, and ultimately to the brackish muck of the Bayou Savage. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 742676 Title: Lords of the White Castle Author: Elizabeth Chadwick Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Length: 20:45:00 Language: English Release date: 12-17-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction Summary: A violent quarrel with the future King John destroys the young Fulke FitzWarins greatest ambition: to become Lord of the White Castle. Instead of accepting his fate, Fulke rebels. But the danger pursuing Fulke reaches new heights as he begins a passionate love affair with Maude Walterthe wealthy widow chosen by John himself. Negotiating a maze of deceit, treachery and shifting alliances, Fulkes route to success is fraught. And when the turmoil of the Magna Carta rebellion combines with a shocking tragedy, everything Fulke has fought for is thrown into the path of destruction. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 766259 Title: Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution An Untold Story Author: Kent Wong Narrator: Freddie Wong Format: Unabridged Length: 10:45:00 Language: English Release date: 12-17-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Asia Summary: An extraordinary memoir of Communist China, the Cultural Revolution, and a yearning to be free When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work, allowing the family to return to the newly established Peoples Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Chairman Maos China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward. In Swimming to Freedom, Kent Wong captures his childhood amidst revolutionary times, where boyish adventures and school days mixed with dire poverty and political persecution. Maos Hundred Flower Campaign had ensnared Kents father. A decade later, the Cultural Revolution closed schools, plunged the country into chaos, and scattered Kent and his sisters to disparate villages, where they struggled to eke out a bare existence. As the son of a capitalist rightist, Kent began to realize that with higher education closed to him, he had no future in China. So when he hooked up with a dissident underground and heard about fellow countrymen, known as Freedom Swimmers, braving great hardship to reach freedom by swimming across miles of open water to Hong Kong, he decided to join them, risking his life for a better future. A gripping, heart-rending journey, this memoir is a moving testament to the human spirit. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 742706 Title: Lady of the English Author: Elizabeth Chadwick Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Length: 17:45:00 Language: English Release date: 12-10-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes a gripping, never-before-told, medieval battle of the sexes that sheds light on one of medieval royalty's most fascinating womenQueen Matilda. 1135, England: Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But the men who support her rival, and cousin, Stephen do not know the iron will that drives her. She will win her inheritance against all odds, and despite all men. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, is now married to a warrior who is fighting to keep Matilda off the throne. But Adeliza knows that Britain's crown belongs to a woman this time. Both women will stand and fight for what they know is right for England's royalty. But for Matilda, pride comes before a fall. And for Adeliza, even the deepest love is no proof against fate. Written with great historical accuracy, Lady of the English is a captivating novel of Medieval England. Fans of Philippa Gregory, Susanna Kearsley, Hilary Mantel, and Diana Gabaldon will be spellbound by this vividly detailed look into medieval history. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 792904 Title: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews Author: Adam Siegel, Deatra Cohen Narrator: Adam Siegel Format: Unabridged Length: 08:30:00 Language: English Release date: 12-10-24 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: History, Health & Wellness, World, Naturopathy & New Age Summary: The definitive guide to the medicinal plant knowledge of Ashkenazi herbal healers--from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism rediscovers the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in Eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement, from their beginnings in the Middle Ages through the modern era. Including the first materia medica of 26 plants and herbs essential to Ashkenazi folk medicine, Ashkenazi Herbalism sheds light on the preparations, medicinal profiles, and applications of a rich but previously unknown herbal tradition--one hidden by language barriers, obscured by cultural misunderstandings, and nearly lost to history. Written for new and established practitioners, it offers illustrations, provides information on comparative medicinal practices, and illuminates the important historical and cultural contexts that gave rise to Eastern European Jewish herbalism. Part I introduces a brief history of the Ashkenazim and provides an overview of traditional medicine among Eastern European Jews. Part II offers a comparative overview of healing customs among Jews of the Pale of Settlement, their many native plants, and the remedies applied by local healers to treat a range of illnesses. This materia medica names each plant in Yiddish, English, Latin, and other relevant languages, and the book also details a brief history of medicine; the roles of the ba'alei shem, feldshers, opshprekherins, midwives, and brewers; and the remedy books used by Jewish healers. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 766253 Title: To Shatter the Night Author: Katherine Quinn Narrator: Gideon Emery, Moira Quirk Format: Unabridged Length: 09:45:00 Language: English Release date: 12-03-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Summary: After escaping the mist, Selena and Jude are pursued by a vengeful god hell-bent on stopping them from breaking the curse that torments the realm, in this sequel to the highly anticipated debut YA fantasy, To Kill a Shadow... Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 766293 Title: Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black worldmaking to reclaim our heritage and humanity Author: Aida Mariam Davis Narrator: Aida Mariam Davis Format: Unabridged Length: 08:09:00 Language: English Release date: 12-03-24 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science Summary: A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness. Creating a world worthy of our children requires recalling the dignity and distinction of the African way of life. This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity—all (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community. Structured in three parts—Remember, Refuse, and Reclaim—Kindred Creation is a philosophical guidebook and a vital invitation to power and reconnection. Davis employs parable, poetry, theory, memory, narrative, and prophecy to help readers: - Remember: By unforgetting the unending and cascading violence of settler colonialism and other forms of domination and exploring the ways that African land, language, lifestyle, and labor are stolen, distorted, and repackaged for colonial consumption to extract capital and sever ties to ancestral knowledge, lifeways, and dignity - Refuse: By rejecting and interrupting death-making institutions and relationships and choosing kinship and self-determination in the face of settler colonial violence - Reclaim: By revealing that freedom is within us—and within reach. Davis shares how the reader can birth new worlds and relationships and offers strategies for reclaiming land, language, lifestyle, and labor. The colonial violence and dispossession of African land, language, and labor is inflicted intentionally—and by design. Reclaiming African lifeways and remembering what was forcibly forgotten must be by creation: a re-membering of our interconnectedness and kinship. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 738826 Title: Kalyna the Cutthroat Author: Elijah Kinch Spector Narrator: Samara Naeymi Format: Unabridged Length: 16:00:00 Language: English Release date: 11-26-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy Summary: The Daughters of Izdihar meets The Foxglove King: An ex-soothsayer and stranded scholar of curses upend a Utopian community that has no love for refugees. Radiant Basket of Rainbow Shells, scholar of curses and magical history, has spent several years on a research expedition abroad in Quruscan, one of the four kingdoms of theTetrarchia. When Tetrarchia and Radiants home country of Loasht suddenly revoke their tenuous peace, Quruscan is no longer the safe haven for Radiant that it once was. He needs someone to help him escape: a bodyguard, perhaps, or someone with the sheer cunning to escort him to safety. The perfect candidate is Kalyna Aljosanova: a crafty, mysterious mercenary with an uncanny reputation. But the political situation in Loasht is far more volatile and dangerous than Radiant left it; it soon becomes clear that he may never be able to return home to his family. With a little of Kalynas signature guile, she finds Radiant asylum in a utopian community on the border between Loasht and the Tetrarchia, and, for a moment, it seems like they might finally have a safe place to stay. But when the groups charismatic leader grows wary of the refugees flocking to his communityand suspicious of Kalyna in particularthat sense of safety begins to unravel once more. Kalyna the Cutthroat deftly imagines how the pressures of heroism can warp even the most unshakeable of survivors, asking what responsibilities human beings have to one another, and whether one good deedof any magnitudecan absolve you of your past for the sake of a future. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 710251 Title: Fate of Silent Gods Author: Scott Drakeford Narrator: John Skelley Format: Unabridged Length: 13:15:00 Language: English Release date: 11-19-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy Summary: IN THE FATE OF SILENT GODS, THE AGE OF IRE SAGA CONTINUES WITH A BRUTAL WAR OF CONQUEST. Emrael Ire saved his brother and thwarted the Fallen God once, but in so doing has put himself and his followers in peril. Their daring rescue has ignited a war with the United Provinces and their sinister Malithii allies. Facing vastly superior numbers, Emrael launches a bold military offensive, striking at the heart of the provinces. If his people are to avoid annihilation, they must first liberate his ancestral homeland of Iraea and convince the people to fight at his side. Emraels true battle is against the Fallen God himself. But how does one fight a god with seemingly limitless power? And what do you do when the god of your enemies calls you his son? As the war rages on, Emrael is tested through betrayal and blood, but nothing will stop him from protecting those he loves. Victory, or death. Be born the Age of Ire. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 766252 Title: Out in the Cold Author: Steve Urszenyi Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Length: 12:15:00 Language: English Release date: 11-12-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Political Thriller Summary: Special Agent Alex Martel is thrown back into a deadly world of deception when a series of attacks threaten to incite World War III in this action-packed thriller. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 766262 Title: Time Will Tell Author: Rita Mae Brown Narrator: Rita Mae Brown Format: Unabridged Length: 10:45:00 Language: English Release date: 11-12-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery Summary: 'Sister' Jane Arnold must use her wits and savvy foxhunting skills to solve the mystery in this exciting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. In this newest installment of the foxhunting series, 'Sister' Jane Arnold will have to team up with her hounds to solve the mystery. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 755896 Title: How Do I Draw These Memories? Author: Jonell Joshua Narrator: Jonell Joshua Format: Unabridged Length: 05:45:00 Language: English Release date: 11-12-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Fiction & Literature, Teen, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction Summary: Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey living in grandparents homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, could not take care of her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the darkest of times. How Do I Draw These Memories? is a graphic novel memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love. From Jonells devastatingly brilliant pen as a writer and an artist, it plumbs the depths of what family can be, and how joy and hope can be found in the most ordinary and extraordinary moments. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 760616 Title: Golemcrafters Author: Emi Watanabe Cohen Narrator: Emi Watanabe Cohen Format: Unabridged Length: 05:15:00 Language: English Release date: 11-12-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore Summary: Faye has a tough time concentrating in School. Its easier to be silent and fade into the woodwork than take on the challenges of kids at school who mock her bi-racial heritage, and her competitive family at home, none of whom are good listeners. Except possibly for her brother Shiloh, who tries to speak extra so she doesnt have to. (Maybe a bit too much extra?) They have a private made up language that they call Effalese which is Japanese (from one side of the family) written in Hebrew letters (from the other side of the family.) And a thousand inside jokes. But the family dynamic is shattered when their uncle and cousin from the Jewish side arrive unannounced to say that its time the children learn the secret family magic: Golem Crafting. And it seems Faye DOES have a gift for it, even more so than Shiloh. But will it truly be the thing that makes Faye feel whole? And will it heal the bitter rifts in the family? Emi Watanabe Cohens story travels from the most awkward surface tensions to the beautiful depths of Jewish culture and lore for a tale of magical and emotional discovery. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 742675 Title: Shadows and Strongholds Author: Elizabeth Chadwick Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Length: 18:15:00 Language: English Release date: 11-05-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction Summary: An awkward misfit, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelins youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably, forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide. When the menace to Ludlow intensifies, Fulke must confront the future head on or fail on all counts, all the while desperate to know if Hawise stands with or against him. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 745439 Title: Flying Horse Author: Sarah Maslin Nir Narrator: Sarah Maslin Nir Format: Unabridged Length: 04:00:00 Language: English Release date: 11-05-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Non-Fiction Summary: Trendsetter is a horse destined to flyin more ways than one. Sarah is a horse-loving seventh-grader with a secret and a fear of losing the one thing she loves most in the world. Separated by an ocean, a horse and a girls parallel struggles to be their best include lots of luck and grit, some stubbornness, and a few failures. It is only when they find each other that these two kindred spirits find themselves. Together they learn that whats important in life isnt greatnessits being great at being you. Inspired by a real horse and a real girl, The Flying Horse will make horse-lovers hearts soar. Charming, believable (especially when it comes to the precise manner in which both horses and young girls think), and just as strong-hearted as Trendsetter himself, this book is truly a charmer.Peter S. Beagle, international bestselling author of The Last Unicorn Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 766255 Title: Fault Lines Author: Janet Sumner Johnson Narrator: Eevin Hartsough Format: Unabridged Length: 08:05:06 Language: English Release date: 10-29-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy Summary: SOME SECRETS CANT STAY LOCKED AWAY. After the incredible events of the last official Winterton Bee, Hope and Gordon Smith have discovered that having an extended family isnt so bad and maybe their famous relatives lives arent so charmed. But Hope is still hiding a secret, and its a big one. When Elizabeth Springer goes missing just before the Wintertons big Thanksgiving celebrationtheir first reunion since the spelling beeHope knows its time to come clean. Especially if it means saving Ms. Springer. But none of the Winterton clan wants to hear it. Worse, they accuse Hope of making up the whole story for attention. Ready to give up on her newfound family, Hope gets a cryptic coded letter with instructions on how to find James Wintertonher long-estranged grandfather. Whats more, the letter hints that Jane Winterton hid away much more than a simple treasure. Now Hope and Gordon face the impossible task of convincing their family to follow a shifty clue to find the man they want to see least, in order to save the woman whos been lying to them for years. With even more family intrigue and peppered with delicious literary what-ifs, the second installment in the middle grade The Winterton Deception series delivers another twisty, electric puzzle mystery young sleuths will eagerly devour. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com