Our Infinite Fates

Our Infinite Fates

Author: Laura Steven Listening Length: 11h 12m

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets This is How You Lose The Time War in this fantastical love story that defies death as two souls reincarnate through the centuries. Theyve loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. Theyve killed each other in every one. Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember...

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RUSSIA 1986

MIKHA HAD BEEN DIGGING the grave for several hours, and still the snow held firm.

He worked methodically, heating coals on a fire and then spreading them over the permafrost. Once it had melted slightly, he raked off the coals, dug as deeply as he could, then repeated the process. The steam of his breath swirled around his fur hat like cigar smoke.

We lived in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, colder even than Mars. Every gulp of pristine air was liquid silver in the lungs.

Under the starry Siberian sky sprawled miles of rugged taiga, black conifer forests muffled with blankets of white. The aurora borealis glowed science-fiction green above us. We were finally coming out of the obsidian winter – when daylight disappeared for two straight months – but the cold was still enough to make your bones ache.