Man, I ran into this exact problem last month! Most places don't seem to have it, but I finally found it on a regional service called 'StoryBeam'. It's mainly for Eastern European and Turkish audiobooks, and the narrator has a really distinctive accent that actually fits the setting. The cover art is totally different from the print edition, too—a silhouetted couple against a desert sky.
You can't buy it standalone; it's part of their 'Romance from the Sands' subscription collection. The audio quality is decent, though there's a faint background hum in a couple of chapters. Still, for a book that's practically vanished from mainstream platforms, it was a lucky find. I think it got pulled from bigger stores due to some obscure rights issue with the translator.
Checked my usual spots and came up empty. Sometimes these indie-published titles from a few years back just vanish from digital circulation. Your best bet might be contacting the publisher directly, if you can even find who holds the audio rights now. Failing that, second-hand CD sets might exist from when it first came out, but good luck finding a player for those.
This one's a real scavenger hunt. After checking Audible, Google Play, and my library's Hoopla with no luck, I stumbled across a user-uploaded version on SoundCloud, of all places. It's not professional—just some fan with a decent microphone reading it chapter by chapter. The performance is a bit flat in the emotional scenes, but it's complete.
I wouldn't recommend it as the first choice, but if you're desperate and just need to hear the story, the channel is called 'Nostalgic Reads'. The comments section is weirdly active with people debating the ending. It's a strange little corner of the internet.
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