Shallow River

By: H. D. Carlton

Narrated by: Jacob Morgan, Michelle Sparks

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Shallow Hill is where souls suffer slow and miserable deaths.

When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind—and some of her sanity. Now, she's rebuilding her life with her dream man, and life couldn't be better.

Ryan Fitzgerald is everything you'd want in a man. Attractive, rich, an aspiring lawyer, and would do anything to keep River. But that's not the only thing that attracts her. It's his attentiveness and possessiveness, but maybe not so much his temper.

When her relationship takes a dark turn, Ryan's estranged brother, Mako, is the only one who sees it. He knows exactly what Ryan is capable of, and it's not the first time he had to be a knight in shining armor.

River came from Shallow Hill, though. She's never needed saving before. What Mako doesn't see is that River is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.

The only one who should be scared is Ryan....

©2020 H. D. Carlton (P)2023 H. D. Carlton

Tough One

This story is not for the faint of heart! Lots of triggers of abuse and violence. Narration is wonderful. Does come to a HEA though.

Narrators did FANTASTIC

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5 spice ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5/5
Perfect amount of storyline and plot mixed with spice. Definitely prepare yourself for a dark plot full of abuse but as a survivor myself, I thought the author did a great job writing about the thought process of someone going through abuse and I didn’t feel triggered by reading it. If anything, it’s helpful to read a story like this because it helps heal me a little every time I remember that I’m not alone and that other people have gone through similar things.

Left speechless!!!!

This book was absolutely amazing. Jacob Morgan is one of my fave male narrators and he helped bring this story to life. The writing was exquisite. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I felt so many emotions during this, anger, sadness, hope, lust. It was definitely less spicy than I was expecting, but my god, I was hooked on every word. H.D. Carlton is definitely becoming one of my favorite authors! Highly recommend.

Great Book!

Definitely a page turner! Well written and narration was so emotional. Well done all the way around!

I am SOO glad I stuck with this story!

It was a close one for me, I almost put this down deciding to DNF - and I’m so glad I didn’t. After River finds her footing in this book it turned around and continued to be a great read/listen. If you’re contemplating it, push through and finish. You won’t be disappointed.

Buy it!

This story is dark, yet shines light on so many peoples truths.

The narration was perfection. Jacob Morgan was the reason I even started listening since this isnt a usual genre read of mine.

This book kept me on the edge of my seat.
The emotions i went through while listening... GAH!

Check the trigger warnings before jumping in.
There are alot of them.
Then buy it.

It's dark and heavy but a good read

The story is very well written but it's a dark and heavy book. Too many trigger warnings. But amazing performance by the narrators.

Heavy!!

Man, this book was so good but very tough to read as it’s such a heavy subject. Every word is worth your time if you don’t have any SA triggers.

Mako….🥵
Sexy sob right there, lol!

I’m glad River got her night in shining armor bc a lot of women in her situation never see a way out.

Loved it

The plot was amazing. It was dark , emotional , bloody , real . Check trigger warnings !! Would read again

A must read !

I love H.D Carlton so much. She definitely didn’t disappoint as always . I loved the story even though it was dark (which I don’t mind) it was a little predictable , but it keeps you interested in what’s going to happen next either way . Michelle sparks voice is sexy & perfect too .