• The Story of Us

  • A Heart-Wrenching Story That Will Make You Believe in True Love
  • By: Tara Sivec
  • Narrated by: Devon Hales, Edward Thomas
  • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (123 ratings)

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The Story of Us

By: Tara Sivec
Narrated by: Devon Hales, Edward Thomas
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Publisher's summary

From the USA Today best-selling author of Fisher's Light comes a "heartbreaking and hopeful" (AL Jackson) stand-alone romance about first love and second chances.

How much can a man take before he breaks?

A total of 1,843 days. That's how long I survived in that hellhole. They tried to break me, but I resisted. I owe it all to the memory of warm summer nights, the scent of peaches, and the one woman who loved me more than I ever deserved to be loved. Now, I'll do anything to get back to her.

Only Shelby Eubanks isn't the girl I left behind all those years ago. She's someone else, a stranger. My Shelby - my little green-eyed firecracker - would never give up her dreams, would never disappear into her mother's ambitions. But I won't give up on her. On us. I may be broken and scarred and not the man I used to be, but I will do whatever it takes to remind her of the story of us.

©2017 Tara Sivec (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"This is a story of an undying, unending love that was strong enough to heal even the deepest of scars. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for beautifully written, heart-wrenching and healing romance to fall in love with." (Aestas Book Blog)

"Emotional and real! I couldn't read The Story of Us fast enough and know it will stay with me forever. Five heart pounding stars!" (Aleatha Romig, New York Times best-selling author)

"The best book I have read all year. Heartbreaking and hopeful. Highly recommend." (A.L. Jackson, New York Times & USA Today best-selling author)

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The story was good but would have been much better without all the vulgar language.

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Loved this

This is such a moving book. I wish this would be made into a movie.

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Heartfelt & definitely a second chance at forever

I highly recommend this well written sad but definitely worthwhile story. The woman and her man that gave away there first chance at happiness because of lies, deception and greed
This is for sure a five ⭐ listen

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Another awesome story by an awesome author!

You think you understand and know what’s going on.... but you don’t. Looking back, it’s like a V8 moment. I should have seen it coming. You can’t help crying one minute and smiling the next. Heart wrenching and heart warming all in one great story.

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Very moving story

over all, good story. a few things I didn't see coming, a few I did. some of the stuff is a little far-fetched, but hey, it's probably actually happening in real life. (power, greed, politics).
The part I really didn't like was the female narrator reading the letters from the male POV. IT WAS DREADFUL. Some was very 2nd grade reading level reading each word as if thinking it what the word is and then kinda whiney.
Then, the southern drawl was far from consistent. In the beginning, a character might have a very pronounced southern drawl, but as the book progressed, it would get weaker or go away all together. the rest was pretty well done.

definitely worth a read/ listen. started off a little "the notebook"ish.

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This story was perfection.

This story was amazing. Heart wrenching. When that bomb was finally dropped, I crumbled. This book is so amazing. Read it. Read it now.

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Good Story

At first I thought it was going to be pretty predictable but there are some real twists. Good listen.

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Too much sex

It was a great story line but a bit too descriptive in the sex parts for me.

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Beautiful

This was a beautifully written story, The author Created and blended the characters together Beautifully. I laughed I cried Couldn't stop listening to this story... My 1st from the author And wouldn't be my last

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Deserves 10 stars!

I loved this book! it was fantastic. Excellent story with a couple of twists I wasn't expecting. The narrators did a great job. I would LOVE for them to narrate another Tara Sivec book together.

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