The Year She Came Home
A Lark Mesa RomanceBy Susannah Mills
Length5h 13m
About this audiobook
One year short of earning her pension, English teacher Denise Walker loses the Houston career she gave twenty-two years to. A summer position brings her back to Lark Mesa, the hometown she escaped at eighteen, and into the classroom where one teacher once changed her life. Mateo Acosta is gifted, angry, and already labeled unreachable. His father, Ben, has spent years trying to repair everything except the distance between them. As Denise helps Mateo find his voice, she and Ben discover that patience can rebuild more than grades, old cars, or abandoned dreams. But staying means confronting what home once cost her and choosing a future no longer measured by other people’s approval. A warm, closed-door midlife romance about education, family, belonging, and the courage to come home.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length5 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 18, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
19Chapter Eighteen
2Chapter One
20Chapter Nineteen
3Chapter Two
21Chapter Twenty
4Chapter Three
22Chapter Twenty-One
5Chapter Four
23Chapter Twenty-Two
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6Chapter Five
24Chapter Twenty-Three
7Chapter Six
25Chapter Twenty-Four
8Chapter Seven
26Chapter Twenty-Five
9Chapter Eight
27Chapter Twenty-Six
10Chapter Nine
28Chapter Twenty-Seven
11Chapter Ten
29Chapter Twenty-Eight
12Chapter Eleven
30Chapter Twenty-Nine
13Chapter Twelve
31Chapter Thirty
14Chapter Thirteen
32Chapter Thirty-One
15Chapter Fourteen
33Chapter Thirty-Two
16Chapter Fifteen
34The End
17Chapter Sixteen
35Bonus Preview: The Mansion on the Rise, Chapter One
18Chapter Seventeen
36Closing Credits
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