Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise: Arrival
Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise is a highly-rated, True Hawaii memoir trilogy, narrated by the author. Explore all 3 volumes, as well as Andrew’s Sci‑Fi audiobooks, below.
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2026 Update
In a Spirit of Aloha, the first 2 volumes are now available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:
WHAT IF PARADISE ASKED YOU TO STAY?
When Andrew answers the call to Hawaii—the most remote populated island chain on Earth—he expects a summer of beaches and adventure. What he finds instead is the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever.
From “extreme picnicking” on the fiery rim of an active lava lake to chance encounters with UFOs and mystics, his days unfold like a dream.
Drawn into the wild community of Puna, he discovers black sand beaches, ecovillages, and unforgettable characters who open his heart in unexpected ways.
But beneath the beauty lies something deeper: the challenge of transformation. What begins as a spontaneous trip becomes a test of courage, love, and belonging—ten thousand hours that gradually redefine home, purpose, and what it means to truly live.
Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise: Arrival is the first in a three-volume true story about the consciousness shift that happens when you embrace Hawaii. Volume 1: Arrival soars with pure adventure, unrequited love, deadly lava, mysterious UFOs, ecotourism, and fascinating characters that you’ll never forget.
Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise: Tribulations
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Even five months on the Big Island can change you forever. Being invited to visit the fiery home of Madame Pele, getting scared half-to-death by a UFO hovering over a lava field, and manifesting a blue feather out of thin air has that effect.
Yet Andrew’s most powerful transformation was still ahead.
A routine hitchhiking trip into town brings a new person into Andrew’s life that just might have the perfect opportunity for him. His new friend is a volunteer at a Vipassana meditation center. She invites him to join her on a 10-day silent meditation course and then live near the meditation center afterward, doing a very different kind of work-trade than he’s ever done.
Andrew accepts and plunges into an intense experience, delving deeper into his mind and body than ever before, unearthing trauma that he thought he had healed long ago. In the process, a profound realization hits him and propels him into a new chapter of his life.
Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise is a three-volume true story about community, sustainability, and a remarkable journey on the Big Island of Hawaii. In Volume 2: Tribulations, Andrew dives deep into a life-changing Vipassana meditation course, gains a new perspective on unrequited love, and is wished “Happy Birthday” from a man beyond the grave.
Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise: Reckoning
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From seeing the hidden fractals within the trees, to meditating in silence for 10 days, to falling in love and seeing that love crumble, the Big Island gives Andrew unparalleled opportunities to grow. Buoyed by a new project, Andrew starts off the new year with a fresh energy and is guided to the biweekly talks of a Hawaiian elder.
The elder reminds him of truths that he’d forgotten, and he leads the group through the healing techniques of laulima and ho‘oponopono, giving Andrew a new energy to release the last shred of attachment to a person who simply doesn’t want to be with him.
Now that he has created more space and clarity, his social circle expands, and Andrew meets someone who becomes one of the strongest catalysts for joy and growth in his life. But she is leaving the island in just six months.
Andrew faces a forking path. All the while, lava is heading toward Pahoa, threatening to isolate all of Puna. The elder taught him that love prevails over all trauma, but will that be enough?
Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise is a three-book true story about the consciousness shift that happens when you embrace Hawaii. Book three, Reckoning, takes flight with earthshaking changes, powerful healing, a new lava flow, and a hurricane, resulting in a reckoning that changes Andrew forever.
The Truth Beyond the Sky
Professionally produced and complete with original music, The Truth Beyond the Sky audiobook is a wonderful way to experience the first book in the Epic of Aravinda.
I’m proud of the work that narrator Jeff Hays and I have produced, and reviewers agree.
2026 UPDATE:
A new, experimental audiobook version of The Truth Beyond the Sky is now out on YouTube.
What if the key to saving the world was hidden in your mother’s disappearance?
Twelve years after his famous mother vanishes, Zahn discovers an alien artifact that will change his life forever.
A mysterious figure in a shimmering uniform reveals that his discovery is tied to a galactic war against the Vakragha, an ancient species that devours entire stars.
Their only weakness is the mythical Tulari stone, lost for eons, capable of healing the wounds they cut into space.
Joined by Asha, a sharp-witted technician with secrets of her own, Zahn finds himself at the heart of a mystery reaching back to his mother’s fate. He realizes everything is connected, and the Vakragha are growing a wormhole near his world.
Full of heart-pounding action, jaw-dropping twists, and philosophical depth inspired by the Ra Material, The Truth Beyond the Sky is a self-contained, award-nominated adventure and the start of the Epic of Aravinda trilogy.
The audiobook has also received a perfect review on AudiobookReviewer.com.
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The Loveliest Abyss in the Universe: An Aravinda Short Story
This one isn’t exclusive to Audible.com, so you have a lot more options on where to buy it, usually under $3 in most stores.
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