His Quiet Ward
An Age Gap Dark Captive RomanceBy Briar Kest
Length9h 33m
About this audiobook
Lena Ashby spent five years losing her mother slowly. She takes a job in a Vermont farmhouse to get some distance from that, and finds a man who hasn't left his own porch in six years.
Felix Ardant is fifty-two, a war photographer who took one photograph — one — and then put his cameras in a trunk.
She was hired to take care of him. She was also, he knows, hired for reasons he can't explain to her yet.
When she finds the photographs in the attic, she doesn't run. She sits with him on the floor for six hours. Then she makes a phone call that neither of them can take back.
An age gap dark captive romance about a debt two families carried for thirty years — and the woman who finally closed it.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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