Where No Shadow Stays

Where No Shadow Stays

Author: Sara Hashem Listening Length: 9h 24m
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A homecoming queen and a bad-boy loner team up to break a generational curse in this YA supernatural horror from a talented American Egyptian voice. Seventeen-year-old Mina is always focused on what comes next: exams, school dances, lakeside picnics with friends. Looking to the future keeps her from dwelling on her pas...

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CHAPTER TWENTY–FIVE PRESENT DAY

I stare at Khalto Safa, and an absurd thought strikes me: We’re going to have to move again.

We’ve ruined the heart of this house like we did our old one. Nourished its bones on dread and loneliness. On my father’s blood, slipping between the floorboards and into the house’s waiting mouth.

Blood. A dizzy fog steals over me, and I yank my gaze from the puddle. I won’t faint. I can’t.

“He’s alive,” my aunt reassures me. Khalto Safa cups a slim hand around her lighter, the snick snick snick of her thumb against the wheel cacophonous.