Ambush

Book Playlist

Ambush Playlist

by Colleen Coble

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 11, 2026

6 mixes for this book

A balanced soundtrack for Paradise Alden’s return to Nova Cambridge: spacious instrumentals evoke the Alabama landscape and the pressure of a murder mystery, while the songs trace old heartbreak, guarded trust, and the pull of home. The sequence moves between quiet reflection and taut, forward-driving energy to mirror suspense unfolding alongside romance.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Light of the Seven

Ramin Djawadi · Game of Thrones (Music from the HBO® Series - Season 6)

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2

Everloving

Moby · Play

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3

Greenland

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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4

Kiara

Bonobo · Black Sands

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5

Two Thousand and Seventeen

Four Tet · New Energy

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6

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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7

saman

Ólafur Arnalds · re:member

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8

Some

Nils Frahm · Solo

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9

Window

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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10

Watermark

Enya · Themes From "Calmi Cuori Appassionati"

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Song for Bob

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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12

The Gravel Road (from "The Village")

James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4

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13

The House That Built Me

Miranda Lambert · Revolution

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14

Poison & Wine

The Civil Wars · Barton Hollow

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15

I Found

Amber Run · 5AM (Expanded Edition)

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16

Long Ride Home

Patty Griffin · A Kiss In Time

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17

Where the Wild Roses Grow - 2011 Remaster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Murder Ballads (2011 Remaster)

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18

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie · I Will Follow You into the Dark

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19

The Way I Am

Ingrid Michaelson · Girls And Boys

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20

Every Little Thing

Carly Pearce · Every Little Thing

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