The Anniversary He Spent Somewhere Else
A Closed-Door Marriage-in-Crisis, Secret Baby and Second-Chance-at-Love Romance (TABLE FOR ONE, BOOK ONE)By Lila Marsh
Length3h 29m
About this audiobook
She asked her husband one question. He took three seconds too long to answer.
Those three seconds ended an eleven-year marriage.
Elise Hale built her life around a man who was always almost home. She wrote the dessert menu that made his restaurants famous. She took her own name off it when the business needed her to. She learned to call an empty chair a busy season.
On their eighth anniversary she waits ninety-one minutes at his flagship restaurant, with something in her handbag she has been waiting all day to tell him.
He never comes. And she decides not to tell him at all.
Six weeks later she leaves on an ordinary Tuesday with one suitcase, her grandfather's brass timer, and a secret that will change both their lives.
Grant is certain she will be back by Sunday.
Sunday comes. Then a kitchen drawer he has no reason to open, and four words in pencil that take him apart on his own floor. By the time he understands what he has lost, she is four hours north — flour to the elbows, laughing in a room he has never stood in.
She builds a bakery with her own name over the door. A daughter in yellow rain boots. And a quiet man across the road who keeps turning up without ever being asked.
Then Grant walks into a bookshop in a town he had no right to find.
A deeply emotional story of neglect, regret and hard-won freedom — with a grovel that is fully earned, and a woman who decides for herself what it buys him.
Closed-door. A standalone with a guaranteed happy ending. Hers.
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Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length3 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN
2PROLOGUE
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN
3CHAPTER ONE
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
4CHAPTER TWO
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
5CHAPTER THREE
21CHAPTER NINETEEN
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6CHAPTER FOUR
22CHAPTER TWENTY
7CHAPTER FIVE
23CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
8CHAPTER SIX
24CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
9CHAPTER SEVEN
25CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
10CHAPTER EIGHT
26CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
11CHAPTER NINE
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
12CHAPTER TEN
28EPILOGUE
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
29THE END
14CHAPTER TWELVE
30BOOK TWO
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN
31A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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