THE DIVORCE SETTLEMENT A Novel of Family Secrets
By RUTH MUSK
Length5h 45m
About this audiobook
What if the woman you called "mother" was the architect of every lie you've ever believed?
For thirty-five years, Margaret Chen has polished the silver, folded the linens, and held her tongue in the Whitfield mansion — a house where old money masks old crimes. But tonight, she leaves a letter in a childhood dresser drawer, and the truth finally breaks free.
Catherine Whitfield has spent her life trying to earn love from a woman who cannot give it. She doesn't know that Eleanor Whitfield is not her mother. She doesn't know that the Whitfield fortune was built on a forged signature and a man's broken body at the base of a half-finished building. She doesn't know that the housekeeper who raised her is the aunt who watched her real mother walk away forever.
Now Jonathan Whitfield wants a divorce. Eleanor will fight with every weapon she has — including secrets that have rotted the foundation for decades. But the reckoning has already begun. And the woman who knows everything has finally chosen to speak.
What awaits inside:
A family empire built on murder, forged documents, and stolen children
A housekeeper who chose silence for thirty-five years — and the letter that changes everything
A divorce that isn't about a marriage ending, but about a house of lies finally collapsing
A daughter who must decide: does she want the truth, even if it destroys the only life she's ever known?
Some truths cost everything to keep — and everything to tell. Open the door to the Whitfield mansion. The letter is waiting. The silence is over.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Self-Help
Length5 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
14Chapter Thirteen
2Chapter One
15Chapter Fourteen
3Chapter Two
16Chapter Fifteen
4Chapter Three
17Chapter Sixteen
5Chapter Four
18Chapter Seventeen
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6Chapter Five
19Chapter Eighteen
7Chapter Six
20Chapter Nineteen
8Chapter Seven
21Chapter Twenty
9Chapter Eight
22Epilogue
10Chapter Nine
23Author's Note
11Chapter Ten
24Acknowledgments
12Chapter Eleven
25About the Author
13Chapter Twelve
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