THE DIVORCE SETTLEMENT A Novel of Family Secrets
By RUTH MUSK
Length5h 46m
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 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
15Chapter Eleven
2Prologue
16Chapter Twelve
3Part I: The Facade
17Chapter Thirteen
4Chapter One
18Chapter Fourteen
5Chapter Two
19Chapter Fifteen
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6Chapter Three
20Chapter Sixteen
7Chapter Four
21Chapter Seventeen
8Chapter Five
22Chapter Eighteen
9Chapter Six
23Chapter Nineteen
10Chapter Seven
24Chapter Twenty
11Chapter Eight
25Epilogue
12Chapter Nine
26Author's Note
13Chapter Ten
27Acknowledgments
14Part II: The Reckoning
28About the Author
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