Running Curse, The

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Ethan Cross has spent his whole life avoiding anything that made him sweat, sore, or slightly less comfortable — until the morning he turns twenty-five and wakes up looking thirty. By the next morning, he looks older still. The curse is simple and merciless: one day, one year, forever — unless he runs a mile, or fights for an hour, to buy the day back. He didn't ask for this. But fifteen years ago, at a marathon he barely remembers, six-year-old Ethan laughed while a man died in front of him — and the runner's mother never forgot. Running keeps him alive. Mia, a trainer at the gym he starts haunting, gives him a reason to want to be. But Mia is the curse-caster's niece, raised by the very woman who marked him — and the truth Ethan's been outrunning for fifteen years is about to catch up to both of them at once. The Running Curse is a novel about the years we waste pretending we have unlimited ones — and what it costs, and what it's worth, to finally start running toward a life instead of away from one. For readers of The Midnight Library, The Seven Year Slip, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue — a high-concept curse, an earned romance, and a reckoning that doesn't let anyone off easy.