Our Infinite Fates

Our Infinite Fates

Author: Laura Steven Listening Length: 11h 12m
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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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THE SAHARA SHIMMERED WITH heat as our strongest camel drew water from the well. Grunting with exertion, it walked staunchly in the opposite direction while a neat snare of camel-hair ropes and leather buckets collected our lifeblood.

I looked around, stomach knotted with worry. My best friend, Lalla, usually coaxed and comforted the beasts as they worked, but she was nowhere to be seen in the baked vastness.

In fact, I had not seen her all morning.

After setting off at dawn to the call of horns and kettledrums, we had stopped to assemble a crop of tents in which to seek shade from the ferocious midday sun. Our thousand-strong caravan was travelling north from Timbuktu, hauling as much gold and ivory as we could carry. Back to the West we would bring salt and cloth, metal and incense, pearls and garnets and writing paper.