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Case Closed

An extended excerpt of Megan Goldin’s STAY AWAKE

Case Closed

Macmillan

News, True Crime

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re sharing an extended excerpt from the upcoming audiobook STAY AWAKE by Megan Goldin. Pre order STAY AWAKE at https://bit.ly/StayAwakeCC or wherever you buy your books and audiobooks.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi listeners.

0:12.3

We promised to bring you more audiobook recommendations and here we are, ready to introduce you to Stay

0:19.4

Awake by Megan Golden.

0:22.4

If you're looking for your next thrilling lesson, we've got you covered.

0:27.0

Stay Awake is one of those I must stay up all night listening and I hope I don't have

0:31.7

nightmares kind of audiobooks.

0:34.5

The title is indicative of more than just how propulsive the plot is.

0:39.8

It also tips to the main character, Liv Reese, who loses her memory every time she falls

0:46.1

asleep.

0:47.1

Her entire body apartment cell phone are all covered with notes to herself.

0:54.2

It's a matter of what's going to happen if she falls asleep.

0:57.9

If she wants to remember anything about her life, she has to stay awake.

1:04.4

Liv's condition has been a mystery to doctors and a major inconvenience to a young 30-something

1:09.8

trying to live their life in New York City.

1:13.1

But when Liv wakes up one morning in the back of a cab with no memory, things take a real

1:18.6

turn when she sees a news report about a murder in her neighborhood.

1:24.6

As the segment pans to the crime scene, she sees a note on a window in the victim's bedroom

1:30.1

that is all too familiar.

1:33.3

Stay Awake is written in Liv's handwriting in blood.

1:41.5

What did she do last night?

1:43.1

And why does she remember nothing from the past two years?

1:47.1

Liv finds herself on the run for a crime she doesn't remember committing, as she tries

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