Mature
Length11h 45m
About this audiobook
Nell Whitcombe has one post, six pounds a year, and the dignity she has spent twenty-seven years protecting.
She does not have any business being housekeeper to a foreign gentleman who owns a house that has been closed for forty years and a wine cellar that hums.
Ilarion is an exiled king, hiding in an English county until a court that voted him out changes its mind. He overpays the gardener. He weeps at the piano. He cannot lie to a vicar to save his life. Nell teaches him how to pass as an ordinary man.
The county teaches her what it does to a lady's maid invited to dance with a foreign gentleman. And when his crown comes back, he offers her a throne — which she refuses, because she has never once in her life wanted to be owned.
A steamy rags-to-romance alien romance about a king who abdicates twice and a housekeeper who never once curtseys to him at home.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length11 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Cast of Characters
10Eight
2Prologue
11Nine
3One
12Ten
4Two
13Eleven
5Three
14Twelve
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6Four
15Thirteen
7Five
16Epilogue
8Six
17About the author
9Seven
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