My Sister Knew His Touch
Marriage Cheating Husband with Sister 2nd Chance at LoveBy Lynda Stewart
Length8h 43m
About this audiobook
Billie Ashcroft has spent her whole life being the plain, capable, overlooked daughter — the one her family loved second, behind her bright, dazzling younger sister Corinne. She built a life anyway: a good marriage, a pediatric therapy practice, a quiet worth of her own. Then at a family dinner she looks across the table and understands, all at once, that her husband and her sister have been together for months. In a single unbearable moment she loses them both.
Adrian never had the courage to end a marriage he'd stopped believing in. Conflict-avoidant to the bone, he did the most cowardly, most unforgivable thing instead — he reached for the person nearest and most forbidden, and let the wreckage say what he couldn't. It was his choice. It was never Billie's fault, and it was never simply Corinne's seduction.
Billie cuts them both off and does the hardest thing: she rebuilds herself alone. She grows her practice, reclaims a self that never needed her family's approval, and refuses to perform forgiveness on anyone's schedule but her own. Adrian spends a year proving change instead of promising it — no contact until she invites it, real work on the cowardice that ruined everything, the whole truth told out loud to both families, and finally the sacrifice of the partnership that tied him to the people who always enabled him. Corinne, forced to sit in what she did, becomes something more honest than the golden girl she was.
My Sister Knew His Touch is an emotional, grown-up domestic drama about the cruelest kind of betrayal — the affair that costs you a marriage and a sister in the same breath — and the woman who had to grieve her family to decide whether she wanted her husband back. A real other-woman reckoning with a sister who is wounded, not a villain; a year of hard-earned, no-shortcuts groveling; and a hard-won, on-the-page second chance chosen from strength, not loneliness. Quiet, character-driven, and unflinching — with a happily-ever-after that never pretends the family is tidily restored.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length8 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Content note: this book contains marital infidelity and its
2Prologue Billie The doorbell at the Plum Street house has tw
3Chapter 1 Adrian Here is what a coward does at a dinner tabl
4Chapter 2 Billie I do not scream in the car and I do not scr
5Chapter 3 Adrian The hotel by the interstate has a coffee ma
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6Chapter 4 Billie The practice opens at eight and I am there
7Chapter 5 Adrian Moving out of a house you broke is a strang
8Chapter 6 Billie The text comes on a Thursday, three weeks i
9Chapter 7 Adrian Theo comes up to Sorrel Creek on a Saturday
10Chapter 8 Billie The first patient of the morning is a boy n
11Chapter 9 Adrian My therapist's office has a clock I am not
12Chapter 10 Billie My mother comes to the practice on a Tuesd
13Chapter 11 Adrian Gerald Ashcroft closes his office door, wh
14Chapter 12 Billie Corinne is sitting on my front step when I
15Chapter 13 Adrian The realization arrives, when it finally a
16Chapter 14 Billie The email comes on a gray Monday in Januar
17Chapter 15 Adrian She names the terms in a text message, and
18Chapter 17 Adrian Gerald asks me to lunch, which is how I kn
19Chapter 18 Billie My mother comes to the practice on a Wedne
20Chapter 19 Adrian The invitation is heavy cream stock with D
21Chapter 21 Adrian The resignation letter takes me four draft
22Chapter 22 Billie The girl on my mat is named Mabel, she is
23Chapter 23 Adrian The letter has been in Marcus Halvorsen's
24Chapter 24 Billie I hear it from Nadia, who hears it from he
25Chapter 25 Adrian The office I can afford is one room over t
26Chapter 26 Billie We meet at the tea place on Willow Row bec
27Chapter 27 Billie I call him myself. I do not text. I have m
28Chapter 28 Adrian I do not let myself believe it. I want to
29Chapter 29 Billie I decide on an ordinary Tuesday, which is
30Chapter 30 Billie I ask him to meet me at the practice, afte
31Chapter 31 Adrian I walk home from her practice through Sorr
32Chapter 32 Billie We do not move back in together for four m
33Chapter 33 Adrian The legal-aid clinic on the north end of S
34Chapter 34 Billie Odette graduates from the practice on a Tu
35Epilogue Billie On a Saturday in late October, a year to the
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