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Sweetest Darkness Audiobook, by Leslie Lutz Play Audiobook Sample

Sweetest Darkness Audiobook

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Read By: Danny Hughes Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2025 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798331962807

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

40

Longest Chapter Length:

40:04 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

37 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

14:37 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

A teenage psychic is drawn deep into the honeycomb of an abandoned hotel—and into a cat-and-mouse game with a predatory entity—in this riveting new supernatural horror novel.

Everyone in Gypsum, Texas, knows the Hotel Alvarado changes at night—especially Quinn. A teenage clairvoyant, he’s been having dreams about it, dreams that call him to its dark, abandoned halls. The hotel is a monument to the town’s more prosperous past, when celebrities flocked to the mineral spas and films were shot in the desert. The Great Depression killed all of that, it killed the Alvarado, and frankly it killed Gypsum, too. Now, when the sun goes down, things no longer living stir deep within its creaking depths.

When Quinn braves the hotel’s darkness with his best friend June and unrequited love Selena, looking for answers, he gets only one: ghosts aren’t the scariest thing lurking inside the Alvarado—although they’re there, cold and restless and angry.

No. He has been called by something worse: a predatory, inhuman entity that threatens to wipe Gypsum off the map, along with everyone in it. And wrongly—accidentally—he has let it out. It takes the shape of a handsome young man. It walks. It talks. It laughs. It can even make you laugh. But its appetite for death can never be sated.

Quinn has always had the power to see the future—can he find the power to change it?

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“So scary, this book gives darkness a bad name! The evil is alive, and the tension grows. When I finished the last page, I realized I was still shivering.”

— R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps

Quotes

  • “An imaginative supernatural thriller novel set in a small town you won’t soon forget.”

    — Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • A Spirit of Texas Middle School Reading List Pick

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About Leslie Lutz

Leslie Lutz is the author of Sweetest Darkness, named to the Spirit of Texas Reading List. Her first book, Fractured Tide, was a Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.