When Hearts Crossed the Line
Emotional Cheating Marriage in Trouble RomanceBy Kathona DeRose
Length8h 46m
About this audiobook
Corinne Jessrow builds wooden boats the way her father taught her, by hand, on the north spit of Vernal Reach, and she knows that a hull is fair when the curve runs true the whole length, with no hard spot and no hollow you can feel under your thumb. She thought her marriage ran that true. She had eleven years with Isaiah Radbrook and a daughter and a boatyard, and she thought the line of them was fair.
Then she found the messages. Not a motel receipt, not lipstick on a collar. Something quieter and, in some ways, worse. For months her husband had been giving the inside of his heart to a woman named Willa, in long late talks and a shared play and a grief he had never once brought home to his wife. He gave Willa the sorrow over Corinne's dead father that Corinne had been waiting years for him to give her. He never touched her. He said so, as if that made it smaller, and Corinne understood at once that it made it larger. The betrayal was not a body. It was the first telling, the confidence, the place in a marriage where the truest things are supposed to go.
What follows is the slowest, most honest kind of reckoning. Corinne does not scream and she does not crumble. She keeps her boatyard running, she keeps her own hands clean when her own heart drifts toward the edge with a widower who understands loss, and she makes her husband do the one thing that cannot be faked or bought. Isaiah has to earn his way back not with gifts or speeches but with the patient, uncomfortable, unglamorous work of telling the truth, bringing his inner life home at last, and giving up in public the very thing his secret was built on.
A marriage is not a smooth thing. Fair is not the same as smooth. You have to sight the whole length of it and decide whether the line, hard spots and hollows and all, still runs true enough to keep. Corinne has to decide that, on her own terms, and no one else's.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 46 mins
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LanguageEnglish
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