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The Affair Came Home With Him
Cheating Spouse Affairs Second Chance RomanceBy Lynda Stewart
Length8h 45m
About this audiobook
Lorna Aldous restores old houses for a living — she strips them back to the bone and makes them whole and true again. The one everyone in Aldermoor envies is her own: a 1912 foursquare she brought back from a wreck with her own two hands. She made the home. She also, somewhere inside it, disappeared.
Then she reads her own house the way she reads a job — and it tells on him. Her husband Gregory, a dentist with a good life and a comfortable marriage, didn't just have an affair. He brought the other woman across their threshold, into the home Lorna built, while Lorna was out on job sites. He wasn't unhappy. That was the ugliness of it: the good, ordinary, faithful life bored him, and he burned a sound house for the thrill of the fire.
Lorna doesn't scream and she doesn't beg. She does what she knows how to do — she strips the defiled house back to bare wood and reclaims it, room by room, as hers alone, and builds a business from it until she is finally visible in her own life. Gregory spends a year learning that words are worthless and only deeds count: no contact until she asks, the slow un-thrilling work of a man learning to want the ordinary he threw away, and finally selling his half of the practice — the place the double life lived — to put the deed to the house in her name, asking nothing back. The other woman, promised a future he never meant, walks away with her own dignity. And their teenage son's trust has to be earned back on its own hard clock.
The Affair Came Home With Him is an emotional, grown-up domestic drama about the most intimate betrayal — the affair that comes into the marriage's literal home — and the woman who took the house back, deed and soul, before she decided whether to let him through the door again. A real infidelity reckoning with an other woman who is wronged, not a villain; a year of hard-earned grovel in deeds, not words; and a hard-won second chance where the home is hers and the man has to earn his way back through the front door with his own hands.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length8 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Content note: this book contains marital infidelity and its
2Prologue Lorna The house is at its best in the last hour bef
3Chapter 1 Gregory Here is what nobody understands about a ca
4Chapter 2 Lorna It's a scarf that does it. Not a text, not a
5Chapter 3 Gregory There's a thing that happens to a tooth wh
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6Chapter 4 Lorna I don't know where he sleeps the first night
7Chapter 5 Gregory I get an apartment in Renfield because the
8Chapter 6 Lorna Cybil calls me on a Sunday, which takes a ne
9Chapter 7 Gregory Wade lets something slip on a Tuesday and
10Chapter 8 Lorna The heat gun lifts another sheet of varnish
11Chapter 9 Gregory Wade has a dermatologist appointment at 4:
12Chapter 10 Lorna The town comes for me at the farmer's marke
13Chapter 11 Gregory Emmett takes me fishing, which is a lie,
14Chapter 12 Lorna Cybil Ostrowski calls me on a Sunday in Aug
15Chapter 13 Gregory The first time the ordinary thing looks l
16Chapter 14 Lorna The Beckett Road house passes final inspect
17Chapter 15 Gregory The text comes at 6:14 on a Tuesday, and
18Chapter 16 Lorna I don't go inside when his car pulls away.
19Chapter 17 Gregory The appointment book is the ledger of my
20Chapter 18 Lorna The call from Renfield comes on a Thursday,
21Chapter 19 Gregory The Aldermoor Merchants' spring mixer is
22Chapter 20 Lorna I learn that Cybil is leaving from Cybil he
23Chapter 21 Gregory The valuation comes back on a Wednesday,
24Chapter 22 Lorna The door lies across two sawhorses in the g
25Chapter 23 Gregory The papers are on Sondra's side of the ta
26Chapter 24 Lorna The envelope comes to the job site, which i
27Chapter 25 Gregory The clinic in Renfield is a low brick bui
28Chapter 26 Lorna The Renfield firm calls it a feature. Ines
29Chapter 27 Lorna I'm the one who asks him. I want that on th
30Chapter 28 Gregory I drive the bypass home in the dark from
31Chapter 29 Lorna I decide on a Tuesday, which is fitting, be
32Chapter 30 Lorna The maples on Hawthorn Street have gone the
33Chapter 31 Gregory The first frost comes on a Tuesday and I'
34Chapter 32 Lorna My father comes to Sunday dinner in Novembe
35Chapter 33 Gregory Wade's truck won't start on the coldest m
36Chapter 34 Lorna By the last week of March the door is ready
37Epilogue Lorna I'm up before either of them on the first Sat
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