A Reason To Stay: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Blackwood series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Reason To Stay runs 8.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Tim Paige and Madeleine Dauer (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 8.7 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 4,933 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Tim Paige
Tim Paige narrates 146 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,214 hours in all.
About as long, on the Modern shelf
1,012 Modern audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Reason To Stay is book 1 of Melissa Ellen's Blackwood series: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Tim Paige and Madeleine Dauer, released October 27, 2020, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Tim Paige, Madeleine Dauer
- Released
- October 27, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Modern, Fiction
- Series
- Blackwood #1
- ISBN
- 9781705275801
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Reason To Stay as an audiobook?
A Reason To Stay runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.
Is A Reason To Stay free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Reason To Stay?
A Reason To Stay is narrated by Tim Paige and Madeleine Dauer.