Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle

Author: Bar Fridman-Tell Listening Length: 11h 26m
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The Bear and the Nightingale meets Weyward in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent. Named a Best Book of March 2026 by Barnes & Noble and Apple. Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exc...

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Chapter Thirty. Rory

Rory

It was a long, long autumn. An autumn of longing, stolen looks and hushed, furtive releases in remote corners of the house.

Nights were the worst. Rory would wake in the early hours as he always did—heart pounding with nightmares or with dreams that left him stiff and ashamed—to the sound of Daye’s soft breath, to a leg thrust out of the covers or shirt hitched up to reveal a strip of midriff.

And though he’d seen her legs and stomach every day of every summer since he was eight, nighttime lent them a special nakedness, an intimacy of sheets and abandon that felt sensual, almost lewd.