Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Author: Caro Claire Burke Listening Length: 13h 46m
Suspense Thriller Read Online

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a tw...

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The next morning, Mary packs quickly. I watch as her hands fly in and out of the little sack I’ll take with me on my journey. Two canteens of water, a chunk of my own shitty homemade bread. Four strips of salted fish. A big can of preserved peaches.

“Aren’t the peaches a bit heavy?”

“You’ll be happy for the sweetness,” she says, and though I’d rather not carry that weight, I can tell it matters to her that I take them, and so I say nothing. While she moves around the kitchen, I sit at the table, trying to memorize her face.

Something I’ve realized, in the moments since I began to pack: I will never step foot in this house again. I’ll do my best to help Maeve, I’ll try to find the doctor—really, I will—but I’ll kill myself before I ever return to this place. Which means I’m saying goodbye.