Where to Start with Catherine Cowles
- Best entry point → Across the Vanishing Sky
- Start the Wrecked #1-3 series → Wrecked Beginnings: Reckless Memories / Perfect Wreckage / Wrecked Palace
- What fans keep coming back to → Shadows of You
- Highest rated by listeners → Beautifully Broken Redemption (Sutter Lake #5)
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Across the Vanishing Sky
Starlight Grove • Book 1
Narrated by Jason Clarke, Samantha Brentmoor, Sebastian York, Adam Gold, Teddy Hamilton, Connor Crais
★ 4.57 ABR Score (10.8K ratings)★ 4.54 Goodreads (10.3K) ★ 4.85 Audible (564)13h 51m listening time • Released 2026The ensemble cast—Clarke, York, Brentmoor leading the charge—transforms this dark mystery into something gripping and layered. Multiple narrators handling a complex past makes the twists land harder.
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Shadows of You
Lost & Found • Book 4
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Zachary Webber
★ 4.48 ABR Score (32.6K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (31.9K) ★ 4.79 Audible (658) - 3
Beautifully Broken Redemption
Sutter Lake • Book 5
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Aaron Shedlock
★ 4.38 ABR Score (13.1K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (12.4K) ★ 4.73 Audible (729)8h 10m listening time • Released 2021 - 4
Wrecked Beginnings: Reckless Memories / Perfect Wreckage / Wrecked Palace
Wrecked #1-3 • Book 1
Narrated by Joe Arden, Andi Arndt, Maxine Mitchell, Ava Erickson
★ 4.34 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (553) ★ 4.78 Audible (1.0K)27h 20m listening time • Released 2021 - 5
Beautifully Broken Control
Sutter Lake • Book 4
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Aaron Shedlock
★ 4.30 ABR Score (15.2K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (14.4K) ★ 4.67 Audible (726)9h 17m listening time • Released 2020 - 6
Beautifully Broken Life
Sutter Lake • Book 2
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Aaron Shedlock
★ 4.28 ABR Score (18.3K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (17.8K) ★ 4.68 Audible (477)9h 18m listening time • Released 2019 - 7
Beautifully Broken Spirit
Sutter Lake • Book 3
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Aaron Shedlock
★ 4.27 ABR Score (17.0K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (16.5K) ★ 4.66 Audible (453)8h 37m listening time • Released 2019 - 8
Perfect Wreckage
Wrecked • Book 2
Narrated by Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
★ 4.25 ABR Score (11.4K ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (11.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (124)9h 12m listening time • Released 2020 - 9
Beautiful Beginnings
Sutter Lake #1-3 • Book 1
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Aaron Shedlock
★ 4.22 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (703) ★ 4.66 Audible (801)27h 5m listening time • Released 2022 - 10
Beautifully Broken Pieces
Sutter Lake • Book 1
Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Aaron Shedlock
★ 4.19 ABR Score (24.8K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (24.2K) ★ 4.56 Audible (625)9h 9m listening time • Released 2019 - 11
The Lost & Found Box Set
Lost & Found #0.5-5
Narrated by Jason Clarke, Sebastian York, Erin Mallon, Andi Arndt, Ava Erickson, Maxine Mitchell, Zachary Webber, Joe Arden
★ 3.97 ABR Score (203 ratings)★ 4.47 Goodreads (126) ★ 4.81 Audible (77)47h 54m listening time • Released 2025
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