Everless

[Read by Eileen Stevens]

Red Queen meets Downton Abbey in this first book of an epic fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Kendare Blake and Stephanie Garber, where time is a prison to which one girl holds the key.

At first, I think that time has stopped again. But there's blood spreading over the floor. Time hasn't stopped. It's just that the room is utterly silent, as silent as the tomb it has become.

In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything -- even time. Ever since the fabled age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days, and years have been extracted from blood, bound to iron, and preserved in coins. Now aristocrats like the Gerling family flourish for centuries, while commoners live out their scant years in bitter resentment.

And no one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. She and her father were once servants at Everless, the Gerlings' palatial estate -- until a fateful accident drove them away. Now, desperate to earn time, Jules returns to Everless amidst preparations for the wedding of Roan, the youngest Gerling lord, to the Queen's daughter.

Between Roan's unexpected kindness, his brother Liam's cruelty, and the chilling rumors surrounding the Queen, Everless holds more temptations -- and danger -- than Jules thought possible. The stories of her childhood begin to take on new significance, spiraling her deeper into a past she hardly recognizes and revealing a tangle of violent secrets that could change her future -- and the future of time itself -- forever.