Audiobooks by Jeffrey Rittenhouse

Where The Bluestem Stands: Birdie's Story

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Kansas is blowing away. In the spring of 1934, Birdie Marsh drives back to her grandmother's farm outside Willow Creek with everything she owns in the truck bed, two daughters beside her on the seat, and a bank note coming due in six months she has no clear way to pay. The Townsend Farm has been sitting empty, the chicken coop home to fourteen hens and not much else. Birdie has the deed, the ground, and the conviction that her grandmother's farm will not be lost on her watch. What she builds from that beginning surprises even her. Starting with a dinner order she cannot fill alone, Birdie begins buying eggs from neighboring farm women and selling them under the Townsend Farm name. Then preserves. Then a standing account with a store on Second Street in Dodge City and a line on the Cattlemen's Hotel menu. One by one, three farm families join the network: Clara Eberly, raising her son alone on a widowed farm. Helen Calloway, whose husband's failing health has put everything at risk. Lydia Unruh, a Mennonite matriarch who has kept her community to itself for fifty years, decides, after careful consideration, that this arrangement is correct arithmetic. The note gets paid. The name goes on a shelf in Dodge. And then the real work begins. Through the winter and into a spring that turns darker than anyone expects, Birdie tends the operation and the women in it, reckoning with a daughter who is teaching herself algebra and another who negotiated sunflowers into the garden plan on the grounds that they don't have to be a preserve; they can just be there. The Townsend Farm becomes something beyond one farm's story. Then the sky turns black. April 14, 1935. Black Sunday. The worst storm of the Dust Bowl decade rolls across the Kansas plain and tests everything Birdie has put into the ground: the crops, the flock, the network, the name. What holds and what blows away comes down to the same thing it has always come down to on this prairie: roots. How deep they go."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), AI Voice (Narrator)

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Where the Bluestem Grows: A Story of Grief, Grit, and Second Chances

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some fires take everything. Others burn away only what was never meant to last. Kansas, 1891. Sarah Townsend has built her life on hard ground and harder work a whitewashed farmhouse, twenty-six horses, five children, and a husband whose quiet love has carried her through every dry spell and every long winter night. Then a single bolt of dry lightning ignites the prairie, and in one terrible afternoon everything Sarah believed was certain is gone. Left alone to keep the horses fed, the children safe, and the farm from slipping through her hands, Sarah does not know how she will make it through another winter, let alone another spring. Then a quiet stranger named Jacob Miller rides up the long dirt track with steady eyes and patient hands and offers her help she cannot afford to refuse, and a tenderness she is not ready to want. But the prairie is unforgiving. Town gossip spreads like wildfire. Horse thieves come in the dark. And Sarah must decide whether holding tight to the man she lost is worth turning away the second chance the wind has carried to her door. A sweeping, tender novel of love after loss on the wide Kansas plains."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), AI Voice (Narrator)

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Where the Bluestem Bends: Annie's Story

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The prairie takes. But it gives back too, if you stay long enough to see it. The spring of 1918 brings the great influenza home to the Kansas grasslands, and in a single season it empties Annie’s world. Within weeks she buries her husband, the stepfather who raised her, and her steady, beloved mother, and she is left alone on the horse farm three generations of her family bled to keep: a chattering six-year-old daughter at her skirts, a barn full of stock she cannot work by herself, and a banker’s note coming due in the fall. She will not sell. She will not be moved off the land where her dead are buried. But a woman cannot hold a horse farm alone, and the wolves are already at the door, including her late husband’s grieving parents, who mean to take her little girl. Then Sam Rosenburg rides up the lane, a quiet farrier the same plague has widowed, with a silent orphaned nephew on the wagon seat beside him and no home he can bear to return to. Two people with nothing left to give each other strike a plain bargain to survive the year: a marriage in name only, his strong hands for her family’s land, a roof over all their heads, and no claim on one another’s hearts. It is a hard winter, and a longer thaw. But somewhere between the foaling barn and the fevered nights, between a silent boy learning to speak again and a child’s laughter returning to a house of grief, two people who married to keep from drowning begin, against all their fear, to learn how to live, and at last how to love. Where the Bluestem Bends is the deeply moving sequel to Where the Bluestem Grows, a clean, faith-filled prairie romance for readers who love marriage-of-convenience stories, second-chance love, and tender historical fiction set on the American frontier. A story of loss, quiet courage, and the stubborn mercy of the land. A clean, inspirational standalone with no explicit content. Best enjoyed after Book One, but written to stand on its own."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), AI Voice (Narrator)

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A Quiet Heart: A Fragile World

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sofia Singleton has always believed that a quiet life was a safe life. At sixteen, her world feels carefully ordered: Sunday mornings at church, school days that follow predictable patterns, evenings spent with family, and a faith that has always felt steady, if somewhat sheltered. Sofia is thoughtful and observant, more comfortable listening than speaking, more likely to reflect than react. Her heart is gentle, her beliefs sincere, and her life—until now—has been defined by routine. She never expected everything to change in a single moment. That moment comes quietly, the way most life-altering moments do. It happens at Calvary Baptist Church, a place Sofia knows as well as her own home. A place of hymns and handshakes, of familiar faces and trusted rhythms. But on an ordinary Sunday, Sofia notices someone she has never seen before. His name is Ethan Val. Ethan does not arrive loudly. He does not draw attention to himself. He sits still, listens carefully, and carries himself with a calm that feels older than his years. There is kindness in the way he speaks, steadiness in the way he moves, but there is also something else. Something unspoken. Something weighted. Sofia senses it immediately. Ethan carries a story he does not share easily. Their first conversations are small, simple greetings, brief exchanges after services, polite smiles that linger just a second too long. But even in those early moments, Sofia feels something shift inside her. Not excitement. Not infatuation. Recognition."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), AI Voice (Narrator)

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Before You Tell Me: Some neighbors know too much

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They know your secrets. They moved in next door to use them. When the Paines arrive on Tall Oaks, a quiet cul-de-sac outside Philadelphia, they are everything new neighbors should be: warm, attentive, impossibly well-prepared. They remember birthdays. They bring the right casserole. They know things one conversation too early, one detail too specific, that no one told them. For most of the street, the Paines are a gift. For Sandy Hackman, they are a threat she cannot name out loud. Sandy has a secret she has spent fourteen years protecting. The name on her mailbox isn't the name she was born with. Her marriage isn't legal. And hidden in a drawer upstairs is evidence of a crime she witnessed the night she finally ran, evidence she has carried in silence ever since, telling herself she would know when the time came to use it. The time may have just arrived. But so have the Paines. As the neighborhood's secrets begin surfacing, a financial disaster here, a shattered reputation there, Sandy is the only one who sees the pattern. The only one watching the watchers. The only one who understands that the cheerful couple at the end of the circle didn't stumble onto this street. They chose it. And they chose it for one reason: Someone on Tall Oaks owes them something. Sandy has to find out who, before they find out who she really is. Before You Tell Me is a gripping, razor-sharp domestic suspense novel for readers of Liane Moriarty, Lisa Jewell, and Freida McFadden. It asks the question no smart home, data broker, or friendly neighbor can answer for you: can you ever truly be known and still be loved?"

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), AI Voice (Narrator)

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The Silent Visitor: First Contact Mystery in the Appalachians: A UFO Experience

"John Carter went into the mountains of Pennsylvania to hunt. He came back carrying the future of humanity. When a solitary, aging wilderness guide discovers a crashed UFO deep in the Appalachian Mountains, he expects danger—or answers. Instead, he finds Xylar, a wounded alien unlike anything John imagined: calm, thoughtful, and deeply concerned with whether humanity is ready for what comes next. As the military recovers the craft—believing it unmanned—John hides the alien and nurses him back to health. What follows is not an invasion, but a quiet awakening. Through telepathic connection, Xylar teaches John about the deeper nature of the universe: how elements respond to intention, how healing begins in the mind, and why love and restraint matter more than power. John is given an extraordinary gift—forty additional years of life, free from pain or illness—but the gift carries a burden. As more humans begin to feel subtle changes they don’t understand, fear grows. Government attention closes in. Other alien observers arrive—some patient, others not. John must choose between revelation and restraint. Between speed and survival. Between becoming something more… or staying human enough to protect the world he loves. The Silent Visitor is a slow-burn, character-driven science fiction novel about first contact without invasion, power without dominance, and the quiet responsibility of guiding humanity before it is ready to be guided. Perfect for readers who enjoy: Thoughtful, philosophical science fiction UFO and first-contact mysteries Alien-human connection stories Slow, atmospheric suspense Stories where compassion matters more than conquest This is Book One of a continuing series. The silence is not empty. It is waiting."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), Zachary Dylan Brown (Narrator)

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The Cabin By The Deep Lake: Where a Hunting Camp Meets a Hidden Underground Railroad Story in the Maine Woods

"Every fall, six men return to a remote cabin in the woods of northern Maine. They come to hunt, to work, to sit by the fire, and to keep a tradition alive—one passed down not just through family, but through time spent on land that asks to be treated with care. What begins as another familiar season changes when a wounded deer leads one of them into ground that has been quiet for more than a century. Hidden in stone and shadow is a truth the land has protected through silence—human lives caught between hope and history, waiting where freedom once passed north. As the discovery unfolds, the men are faced with a choice: preserve the secret as it is, or allow the past to finally speak. What follows is not a rush toward answers, but a careful reckoning—with legacy, responsibility, and the difference between ownership and stewardship. This is not a story about hunting trophies or buried treasure. It is a story about restraint. About listening. About knowing when to act—and when to leave things exactly where they are. Blending wilderness realism with quiet historical mystery, this novel explores the unseen paths of the Underground Railroad, the weight of inherited land, and the ways memory survives when it is honored rather than exposed. In the end, the land keeps its secrets. But those who learn to listen are changed forever."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), Zachary Dylan Brown (Narrator)

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The Grumpy Old Man Goes On A Cruise Ship

"The Grumpy Old Man Goes On A Cruise Ship A Funny, Clean Comedy About Surviving a Vacation Without Enjoying It The Grumpy Old Man does not like cruises. He does not like crowds, schedules, loud announcements, moving furniture, or people who are having fun too early in the day. He prefers solid ground, quiet corners, and knowing exactly where he is standing at all times. Unfortunately, he is now on a cruise ship. From overpacked decks and endless lines to surprise photographs and beds that move without permission, the Grumpy Old Man faces a floating world that refuses to behave properly. Meals take too long, the internet takes forever, and the sun will not leave him alone. Then something unexpected happens."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), Zachary Dylan Brown (Narrator)

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The Grumpy Old Man

"The Grumpy Old Man is a warm, funny, and relatable storybook about an old man who has an opinion about everything—and none of them are particularly cheerful. From noisy mornings and grocery stores gone wrong to technology, traffic, holidays, and everyday modern life, he faces each day with a sharp eye, dry humor, and perfectly timed complaints. Told through short, story-driven chapters, each filled with simple scenes and memorable one-line sayings, this book captures the small annoyances everyone recognizes—but rarely says out loud. Grumpy, yes. Mean, no. Honest? Absolutely. As the days pass, the world doesn’t change much—but something quietly shifts. Beneath the complaints is a man who notices more than he admits, remembers how things used to be, and keeps showing up anyway. Perfect for: Readers who enjoy clean, observational humor Fans of short, episodic stories All ages—from teens to grandparents Anyone who has ever muttered, “It didn’t used to be like this.” Whether you read a chapter at a time or laugh straight through, The Grumpy Old Man is a reminder that even on the most irritating days, there’s still something worth noticing. Even if it’s just something to complain about."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), Zachary Dylan Brown (Narrator)

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The Coyote at the Door: True stories of sudden wildlife attacks in Pennsylvania where humans least expect them.

"The Coyote at the Door: True Stories of Sudden Wildlife Attacks in Pennsylvania Where Humans Least Expect Them The wild isn’t always deep in the mountains. Sometimes—it’s standing right outside your door. In The Coyote at the Door, real people share their terrifying, unforgettable encounters with one of North America’s most adaptable predators. Set in quiet suburbs, rural backyards, neighborhood parks, and wooded walking trails, these are true stories of sudden wildlife attacks that shattered the illusion of safety and brought the wilderness crashing into everyday life. From a nurse mauled behind her workplace in rural Pennsylvania… To a father who fought off a rabid coyote to protect his young daughters… To children attacked in their own front yards . To hikers, joggers, and dog walkers ambushed in places they thought were safe… These gripping narratives reveal what happens when instincts collide, when fear takes over, and when ordinary people are forced to confront Coyotes, Bears, Deer and Bobcats."

Jeffrey Rittenhouse (Author), Zachary Dylan Brown (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Jeffrey Rittenhouse

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