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Iron bars humming, a faceless nurse in the doorway, and a rehearsed apology that might just buy another day. Nicky is trapped somewhere that shouldn't exist, counting footsteps in the corridor and ink-cold promises under her skin — and the only currency she has left is patience she isn't sure she can afford. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT...

A late-night phone call, a high priestess with grave eyes, and a woman somewhere in the city who won't survive the week without them. The Starfall Coven has a new case — and an old enemy whose name tastes like ash in Asha's mouth even though she can't remember ever hearing it. The Dusk Reapers are rising, and they're hunting on her side of the veil. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Re...

Group meditations in foreign tongues, whispered incantations, and a title Asha never asked for. When the high priestess names her the Cursebreaker, the word lands like an anchor in water she can't see the bottom of — a job, a destiny, and a warning all at once. The grimoire already knew. Asha's just the last to find out. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy au...

Candlelight on dusty yoga mats, incense curling through the rafters, and a circle of women who know Asha's name when she does not. In a shadowed studio above the city, Asha is welcomed back by a coven she can't remember joining — and a purple-haired witch whose hurt is as sharp as her smile. The Starfall sisters have been waiting a long time for their cursebreaker to come home. Cursebreake...

A list in the margins of an old planner, faces in photographs that feel borrowed, and voices she catches herself answering before she knows why. Asha's old life is crowding in at the edges — and the Cursebreaker, whatever she was before, is starting to wake up. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes...

Steam on the window, rosemary under her fingernails, and a kettle that boils a beat too fast when she isn't paying attention. Magic, Asha is learning, doesn't always announce itself — sometimes it just makes the tea and waits. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes weekdays at 4 PM Eastern. Foll...

A shadow where there shouldn't be one, the dog's hackles up before the porch light flickers, and Tanglewood Manor watching its own perimeter. Something in the hedge remembers Asha's name — and whatever it wants, it's patient enough to come back for. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-chapter. New episodes...

A prickle at the base of her spine, a restlessness she can't walk off, and a light that flickers only when she's in the room. Asha's body is telling her things her mind hasn't learned how to hear yet — and the sparks, when they come, are tired of being politely ignored. Cursebreaker Book 1: The Dusk Reapers is a full-cast urban fantasy audiobook by JT Lawrence, narrated chapter-by-...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Pages that turn themselves, a voice at the edge of hearing, and ink that knows more than Asha does. Somewhere between a book and a waking dream, the grimoire starts giving back what the accident took — in pieces, in riddles, and in its own unhurried time. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Double digits and the first real wall. Asha confronts the gap between what people say she was and what she can feel herself becoming. The sparks have gotten bolder. So has she. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbuilding, and spell-slinging action, hit s...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Instructions she doesn't remember giving. A favour she doesn't remember owing. Asha traces a thread backwards through her own life and finds it ends in a hand that isn't hers. Urban fantasy with teeth, chapter by chapter. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com A name, whispered for the first time since the ICU. A face that should be ancient history but is sitting across from her at breakfast. Asha's amnesia is not protection — it is a runway for everything she forgot to fear. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Everyone who shows up for her knows something she doesn't. Asha starts cataloguing: what her body can do, what her mind lets slip, what the sparks respond to. The Cursebreaker series names its first real threat. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbui...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Coffee. Questions. A number she doesn't remember dialing. Asha tests the edges of her new life and finds them thinner than paper. Chapter 6 of The Dusk Reapers widens the world around her — and begins to name the things in it. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-in...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com The first time the magic doesn't feel like accident. A room rearranges itself around her breath. The voices take shape as suggestions she almost wants to follow. And a knock at the door changes what 'safe' means for the rest of Book 1. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery,...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Paperwork, pretenses, and a name the world keeps saying to her like it should mean something. Asha learns to lie by omission, and learns the harder lesson: some things under her skin are not content to be forgotten. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty witch protagonist, dark magic mystery, South African-inspired worldbui...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com The ward is quiet but Asha isn't. Every corner of her new life is a stranger's face claiming old intimacy, and every mirror is a question she can't answer. The sparks are still there. The voices are still there. And something new has started keeping rhythm with her pulse. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gritty w...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com Asha's first steps beyond the ICU. The world she's woken into is louder than her memory, and more patient than her fear — full of strangers who expect her to remember, and sparks under her skin that refuse to settle. Chapter 2 of The Dusk Reapers, Book 1 of the Cursebreaker series. If you love urban fantasy audiobooks with a gr...

This and more full audiobooks available at www.jt-lawrence.com She wakes in a blinding white ICU with no name and no memory — only sparks under her skin, a steel tray flying across the room, and a dancing peacock of pain. Something is very wrong with her. Something is very wrong with the voices in her head. Book 1 of The Cursebreaker series begins here, with the prologue, the Equinox Stitch spell,...

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"Not Waving" is part of the Sticky Fingers 4 short story collection. Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized... fans of Roald Dahl and Gillian Flynn will love these unsettling stories with a twist in the tale. Sticky Fingers Complete Collection Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Fingers-Complete-Collection-Stories-ebook/dp/B0D3BLSTWW This is a public episode. If you'd...

They stride over the broken paving of the sidewalk, stepping over tree roots and potholes. Susman trips over the nub of a tree stump, and De Villiers catches her hand without thinking. She regains her balance and snatches it back. “Sorry,” he says. She thanks him in an annoyed way and plunges her hands back into her pockets and they keep walking. Pigeons, pecking at the stale breadcrumbs near an o...

Before AI tools were as advanced as they are, I played around with pretending to write like a robot. This story is one of three written through that lens. It was fun! Sticky Fingers Complete Collection Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Fingers-Complete-Collection-Stories-ebook/dp/B0D3BLSTWW This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...