Length7h 48m
About this audiobook
A dutiful daughter's idyllic summer is brutally interrupted when her father's sudden death leaves her family in a precarious financial state. Pressured by a manipulative relative, she is coerced into accepting a loveless marriage proposal to secure her siblings' future. As the wedding day approaches, her heart rebels, sparking a desperate inner conflict between self-sacrifice and the desire for true happiness. The oppressive heat of the season mirrors the suffocating social expectations closing in around her. Captivate your senses with a tragic yet beautifully drawn portrait of Victorian domestic sacrifice.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
11CHAPTER XI.
2CHAPTER II.
12CHAPTER XII.
3CHAPTER III.
13CHAPTER XIII.
4CHAPTER IV.
14CHAPTER XIV.
5CHAPTER V.
15CHAPTER XV.
Show all chaptersShow less
6CHAPTER VI.
16CHAPTER XVI.
7CHAPTER VII.
17CHAPTER XVII.
8CHAPTER VIII.
18CHAPTER XVIII.
9CHAPTER IX.
19IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
10CHAPTER X.
CaritàMrs. Oliphant18h 19m3.5 (46)$2
A Beleaguered City / Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the UnseenMrs. Oliphant4h 45m3.7 (1.5K)$2
A Little Pilgrim: Stories of the Seen and the UnseenMrs. Oliphant2h 41m3.9 (338)$2
A Poor GentlemanMrs. Oliphant16h 54m$2
A Widow's Tale, and Other StoriesMrs. Oliphant18h 26m3.5 (15)$2
A Country Gentleman and His FamilyMrs. Oliphant16h3.5 (46)$2
A Son of the SoilMrs. Oliphant20h 28m$2
The Perpetual CurateMrs. Oliphant18h 37m4.0 (465)$2
Madam: A NovelMrs. Oliphant18h 4m$2
A Little Pilgrim in the UnseenMrs. Oliphant2h 41m3.8 (496)$2
JoyceMrs. Oliphant18h 28m$2
The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four BooksMrs. Oliphant18h 15m3.5 (10)$2
Hester: A Story of Contemporary LifeMrs. Oliphant20h 49m3.9 (994)$2
Neighbours on the GreenMrs. Oliphant16h 2m4.6 (10)$2
The Railway Man and His ChildrenMrs. Oliphant21h 29m3.5 (12)$2
He That Will Not When He MayMrs. Oliphant17h 49m3.8 (254)$2
Lady WilliamMrs. Oliphant17h 14m$2
OmbraMrs. Oliphant17h 35m$2
The Marriage of ElinorMrs. Oliphant17h 20m3.5 (67)$2
Pride & Prejudice (Annotated)Jane Austen15h 10m4.7 (13.3K)$2 · $0.00
The Search (Annotated)Grace Livingston Hill7h 29m4.7 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m4.6 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Wishes from the HeartSophie Mays4h 9m4.7 (344)$15 · $0.00
Blizzard ShowdownShirlee McCoy5h 16m4.6 (1.1K)$12 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m4.6 (1.1K)$8 · $0.00
Arctic WitnessHeather Woodhaven5h 46m4.6 (985)$12 · $0.00
Following the TrailLynette Eason6h 35m4.6 (2.3K)$12 · $0.00
Defending from DangerJodie Bailey5h 46m4.6 (588)$24 · $0.00
Explosive RevengeMaggie K. Black6h 18m4.6 (545)$12 · $0.00
Her Brand of JusticeB.J. Daniels6h 48m4.6 (1.3K)$12 · $0.00
Search And DetectTerri Reed5h 51m4.6 (706)$24 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
Danger in the WildernessDarlene L. Turner6h 54m4.7 (299)$12 · $0.00
Yukon JusticeDana Mentink6h 15m4.6 (751)$12 · $0.00
The Rogue WarriorCindy Roland Anderson5h 44m4.6 (410)$17 · $0.00
Her Duty Bound DefenderSharee Stover6h 30m4.6 (1.1K)$24 · $0.00
DRACULA (Annotated)Bram Stoker17h 35m4.5 (6.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Trail Of ThreatsJessica R. Patch5h 47m4.6 (425)$24 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$15 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$15 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$10 · $0.00
ShivajiRanjit Desai25h 13m4.6 (3.1K)$24 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
You may also like
This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald9h 40m3.8 (92.9K)$6 · $0.00
CandidaGeorge Bernard Shaw2h 3m3.8 (5.2K)$2.30 · $0.00
The RainbowD. H. Lawrence20h 45m3.9 (29.1K)$2
It's Not Like It's a SecretMisa Sugiura10h 35m3.9 (14.1K)$29 · $0.00
Apropos of NothingAllen, Woody12h 43m4.0 (15.2K)Free
A Room with a ViewE. M. Forster7h 45m4.0 (236K)$2
With You All the WayCynthia Hand9h 39m3.6 (1.7K)$29 · $0.00
Bunner SistersEdith Wharton3h 12m3.9 (3.2K)Free
Sons & LoversD. H. Lawrence20h 17m3.9 (71.2K)$0.99 · $0.00
ChildhoodLeo Tolstoy4h 10m3.9 (13.8K)$2.30 · $0.00
CandidaGeorge Bernard Shaw2h 40m3.9 (3.4K)$2.30
The Awakening and Selected Short StoriesKate Chopin7h 11m4.0 (16.1K)$2.30 · $0.00
Rules at the School by the SeaJenny Colgan7h 32m4.0 (10.9K)$26 · $0.00
Love, Life, and the ListKasie West8h 19m4.1 (26.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Primrose Path: A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of FifeMrs. Oliphant19h 43m3.5 (16)$2
The Greatest Feminist Classics in One VolumeHenrik Ibsen, Charlotte Brontë, Marietta Holley, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill, Zona Gale, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Johnston, Grant Allen, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Sojourner Truth, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Martineau, Fanny Burney, Mary Ware Dennett, Julia Ward Howe, Ada Cambridge, H. G. Wells, Sarah H. Bradford, D. H. Lawrence, Nikolai Leskov, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Margaret Deland, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Mitchell, Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett899h 45m$1 · $0.00
Crome YellowAldous Huxley6h 35m3.4 (11.3K)$2.30
The Love Affairs of PixieMrs. George de Horne Vaizey8h 12m3.7 (51)$2
Ida's New ShoesMadeline Leslie4h 40m$3
The Greatest Romance Novels of American LiteratureHenry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Barr, Grace Livingston Hill, Randall Parrish, Gene Stratton-Porter, Nathaniel Hawthorne114h 18m$1.99