The Divorce Papers Waiting Beside My Birthday Cake
A Marriage of Betrayal, Infidelity and Revenge RomanceBy Whitney Cortez
Length8h 22m
About this audiobook
Verena Ballard has spent fifteen years believing that kindness, loyalty, and quiet devotion were enough to protect a marriage.
She couldn't have been more wrong.
On the morning of her thirty-third birthday, she carefully arranges flowers, sets the table, frosts her own cake, and prepares to celebrate with the people she loves.
Then the doorbell rings.
Standing on her porch isn't a friend.
Or a guest.
Or her husband.
It's a process server.
Inside the envelope are divorce papers.
Not filed today.
Not yesterday.
Eleven days ago.
Her husband had already decided to end their marriage.
He simply waited for her birthday to make sure the moment hurt as much as possible.
As Verena begins piecing together the truth, she discovers that nothing about this was impulsive.
Every conversation.
Every smile.
Every shared meal.
Every birthday plan.
Every act of kindness.
It was all part of a carefully orchestrated performance designed to keep her unsuspecting until the exact moment he chose to destroy her world.
But the man who spent years mistaking her quiet nature for weakness has made one fatal mistake.
He forgot that silence is not surrender.
As one of the country's finest pipe organ restorers, Verena has spent her career bringing forgotten voices back to life. Hidden inside every magnificent instrument are silent ranks of pipes waiting for someone to finally give them breath.
For years...
She never realized she was one of them.
Now, with everything she believed reduced to ashes, Verena must decide whether she'll remain the woman everyone expected her to be...
Or finally become the woman she was always meant to become.
Set among historic churches, charming coastal towns, and breathtaking Lowcountry landscapes, The Divorce Papers Waiting Beside My Birthday Cake is an emotionally unforgettable Marriage of Betrayal, Infidelity and Revenge Romance about calculated cruelty, emotional resilience, rediscovering your voice, and proving that the most devastating revenge is living a life the people who underestimated you will never be allowed to share.
If you love emotionally powerful women's fiction, unforgettable heroines, psychological manipulation, deeply satisfying revenge, marriage betrayal, and stories where justice is earned rather than given, this unforgettable novel will keep you turning pages until the very last chapter.
He planned the perfect day to destroy her.
She never planned on surviving it.
But when Verena begins uncovering the real reason her husband chose that birthday—and the secret he's desperately trying to protect—will exposing the truth cost her everything...or become the moment she finally finds the voice he spent fifteen years trying to silence?
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dear Reader
1917. A Standing Order
2Prologue: Beside the Cake
2018. On His Calendar
31. The Rank That Never Sounded
2119. Making Waves
42. A Real Cake
2220. The Held Note
53. Dated in Advance
2321. The File He Built for Me
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64. The Coordinator
2422. The Night Before Wind
75. What I Saw in the Shop
2523. Voiced
86. Administered
2624. The Ovens at Dawn
97. Every Date I Kept
2725. Warm Enough to Rise
108. A Ledger, Not a Vow
2826. Too Late by His Own Clock
119. Wind in My Own Shop
2927. Clean, But Not for Him
1210. Retainer
3028. The Dedication
1311. Why I Bake the Day
3129. Cleared and Mine
1412. The Church at Muddy Creek
3230. A Day Worth Keeping
1513. What the Ledger Shows
3331. My Own Calendar
1614. Frosting and Rosin
3432. Wind in Every Pipe
1715. Bank Hours
35Epilogue: The Lease Beside the Cake
1816. Undervalued
36About the Author
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