Length3h 7m
About this audiobook
Scotland, 1818. Abandoned on a Highland road by her travelling company – in fairy wings, one shoe and a tinsel crown – actress Fenella Vane has three pennies to her name and a goat for company. Then she reaches Castle Brodach, whose laird, Struan Calder, lives by a single rule: a Calder does not laugh. So Fenella makes him a wager. If she can make him laugh before the harvest moon, he pays her passage to London and the stage she has always dreamed of. If she fails, she scrubs his pots until spring. Ghosts in the north tower. A pig’s bladder under the laird’s cushion. A moonlit reel, a parrot and a goat with opinions. The whole castle is betting on her – and Struan has never lost anything in his life. But the closer Fenella comes to winning, the less she wants to leave. And the grim laird is about to discover there are far worse things than losing.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length3 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: Exit, Pursued by a Goat
2Chapter 2: The Wager
3Chapter 3: Scullery Maid on Probation
4Chapter 4: Enter Lady Macbeth
5Chapter 5: The Small Print
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6Chapter 6: Hard Labour, with Goose
7Chapter 7: The Laird Who Would Not Laugh
8Chapter 8: A Reel by Moonlight
9Chapter 9: The Letters
10Chapter 10: Two Fools Determined to Lose
11Chapter 11: The Harvest Moon Rises
12Chapter 12: The Worst Review
13Chapter 13: Exit, Pursued by a Laird
14Chapter 14: Curtain Call
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