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Ruin and Reparation
A Steamy Regency Billionaire Second Chance NovelBy Theodora Ashby Winslow
Length13h 56m
About this audiobook
In 1816, Elias Wren asked a woman to marry him in a garden at nineteen. She said no. That winter, he refused to lend her brother the money that would have kept the Ashby estate from being sold.
He has spent eleven years getting richer than anyone in the north of England, and poorer in every way that matters.
Perpetua Ashby has spent the same eleven years turning her ruined family home into a school for orphaned girls, mortgaged to a bank whose true owner she has only just discovered.
When she walks into his Manchester counting house to demand an explanation, he does not offer her the loan. He offers her a year on the school's board, in exchange for the mortgage forgiven, so he can learn what his money has been doing in her hands.
What follows is a year of ledgers, bad harvests, and a scandal sheet, and two people who have spent eleven years not saying the same word.
A steamy Regency second chance novel with a heroine who keeps her own books and a hero who finally writes the letter.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Historical Fiction
Length13 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One
11Chapter Eleven
2Chapter Two
12Chapter Twelve
3Chapter Three
13Chapter Thirteen
4Chapter Four
14Chapter Fourteen
5Chapter Five
15Chapter Fifteen
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6Chapter Six
16Chapter Sixteen
7Chapter Seven
17Chapter Seventeen
8Chapter Eight
18Chapter Eighteen
9Chapter Nine
19Epilogue
10Chapter Ten
20About the author
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