Romance audio · 4 stories

Protective romance, in audio

Protective, done well, is not possessive. It is the man who carries you up a hundred and twelve steps out of a storm, or who comes home exhausted and still asks how you are.

Each story is told by his voice alone, and at certain moments he waits for your answer.

Start free with The Keeper. Every story’s opening is free to hear, up to his first question.

FreeThe KeeperFantasy · 7 min

The Keeper

A storm leaves you on the rocks below a lighthouse. Its keeper hasn't spoken to anyone in years.

7 min · 3 decisions · 3 endings · headphones on · Free

The storm should have taken you. Instead it leaves you on the rocks below a lighthouse at the edge of the world, and the man who keeps its light carries you up a hundred and twelve crooked steps to his fire. He talks too much, because nobody has listened to him in years. He won't tell you his name, because out here the sea remembers names. You decide how close you sit to the fire, and to him. And when a bell rings across the water in the middle of the night, you decide whether to go home or stay with the keeper. A gentle fantasy comfort story with a protective, lonely, slightly awkward hero, written for headphones and rainy nights. Three endings.

Moonvale+Night ShiftJealous · 6–7 min

Night Shift

Your doctor boyfriend gets home at 4am after fourteen hours. You waited up. Then your phone buzzes.

6–7 min · 3 decisions · 2 endings · headphones on

He walks through the door at four in the morning after a fourteen-hour shift: two car accidents, a kid who swallowed a Lego, and a man who would not stop talking about his boat. You waited up in his hoodie with the little lamp on. Then your phone lights up with a text from Marcus, and your very calm, very professional doctor boyfriend discovers he is not calm at all. Decide what you tell him, how hard you work the knots out of his shoulders, and whether you remember the one thing he asked you to remember before he fell asleep on you. A protective, jealous, deeply tired boyfriend comfort story for anyone who loves someone who works nights. Two endings.

Moonvale+The Midnight RuleFantasy · 8 min

The Midnight Rule

His castle took you in from the wolves. He has one rule: be behind a locked door by midnight. It's eleven fifty-eight.

8 min · 3 decisions · 3 endings · headphones on

The wolves chased you out of the forest and up to an iron gate, and the man who opened it sent them away with a single word. His hands are cold. He never eats. He has not had a guest in a very long time, and he has exactly one rule: be behind your bolted door before the clock strikes twelve, whatever you hear, whatever he says through the wood. You decide whether to look at his face when the wolves come back, how close you let a man who can hear your heartbeat come to you by the fire, and what you do when midnight strikes and his voice is on the other side of your door. A gothic, forbidden, protective vampire romantasy for headphones and long nights. Three endings.

Moonvale+The Last RiderFantasy · 7–8 min

The Last Rider

The kingdom's last dragon rider lands on your tower at midnight. He flies to the border at first light.

7–8 min · 4 decisions · 4 endings · headphones on

Every night for a month you've charted the stars from the top of the castle's tallest tower, alone with your lamp. Every night for a month, something enormous has passed over it. Tonight it lands. He is the Captain of the Wing, the last dragon rider in the kingdom, and at first light he flies to a border where things don't sleep. He has one night, a dragon called Seren who likes the smell of ink, and a saddle with room for two. Choose where you sit, how high you fly over the sleeping kingdom, whether you hold on or open your arms when Seren falls out of the sky, and what you tell him on a mountain ledge as the east goes grey. A sweeping, protective, quietly lonely fantasy romance, written for headphones and open windows. Four decisions, four endings (one of them a Gold bonus).