Audiobook Review: The Voice We Find by Nicole Deese
The Voice We Find: A Fog Harbor Romance
Series: Fog Harbor #3
Author: Nicole Deese
Narrators:
Stephanie Cozart
Nick Mills
Taylor Meskimen
Published: April 15, 2025
Audiobook: 14 hours 26 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: February 15-23, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Two voices. One story. A chance to rewrite their future.
Sophie Wilder returns home to California with nothing more than a failed Broadway career and a geriatric cat. Stuck working at the family winery with her egotistical brother and desperate for a way to revive her acting dreams, she takes a side gig as an audiobook narrator with Fog Harbor Books. But getting mixed up in the life of her reluctant sound engineer was never a part of her plans.
August Tate is still reeling from taking on guardianship of his teen sister. Determined to find a solution to her degenerative hearing loss and to prevent his private recording studio from going under, he agrees to produce audiobooks part-time. When Sophie breathes new life into his creativity and forms an unexpected bond with his sister rooted in their common faith, he must confront the reasons he turned away from his own or risk losing the second chance he’s only just started to believe in.
The Voice We Find is the third book in Nicole Deese’s Fog Harbor Romance Series for fans of clean, faith-based stories, deaf and hard of hearing representation, workplace romance, books about books, found family, and sibling bonds.
Jessica’s Review:
The Voice We Find is a contemporary Christian Fiction novel that deals with some deep themes. All three of our characters: Sophie, August, and Gabby all have growth over the course of the novel. The reader also experiences the character’s traumas and the aftermath of family loss, family tension, struggles with faith, and as the title suggests: The characters finding their voice in the ways that they are meant to. In addition to these themes, we have God and He is also a central part of the story. There is also a little bit of a mystery with Sophie’s past..
In addition to the three main characters we also have Phantom, who is Sophie’s ‘geriatric’ cat. He is his own character as I saw my own cat Curry in Phantom. All my love to stubborn, older cats! Curry can be his own ‘stubborn old man’!
My favorite parts of this novel are the ASL and the hard of hearing/ deaf community representation! Disability representation is needed more of in books and it is a significant part of the novel due to Gabby’s degenerative hearing loss and eventual deafness.
The reader also gets some insight in theater performance and audiobook narration. I enjoyed getting a brief look at what working in those ‘worlds’ consist of. We also get a sweet romance that progresses slowly. We also get another form of love that is the sibling love between August and Gabby. They may not be ‘blood relatives’, but they are family and their love is definitely there!
You can’t help but grow to care about all of these characters in all of their realities. They are all far from perfect, but again we experience their growth over the course of the novel.
All of the narrators brought August, Sophie, and Gabby to life with perfection. They all enhanced the story. The Voice We Find is the third in the series, but each novel can be treated as a standalone. This one was a book club selection for February, and I enjoyed it and hope to experience the other two in the series soon.