Length10h 55m
About this audiobook
Elena Lauron has opinions, and she has never once kept one to herself. She told her daughter that a house full of chosen lovers was foolishness. She told her that love is not something you divide, it is something you commit to. She meant every word, and she has been a widow long enough to believe she was finished wanting anything she would have to explain.
Then she carries a chair she overpaid for into a Houston workshop that smells like linseed and coffee, and Raymond Toussaint runs his thumb down the grain and tells her it's a good chair with a bad story. He fixes it slower than he needs to. He reads aloud while he works. He asks before he does anything at all, and he wants her to say what she wants out loud, every single time.
He also goes home every night to Dolores, his wife of thirty-one years, who knows exactly where he has been, sends him back with leftovers, and invites Elena to supper before Elena has admitted a thing.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length10 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Trouble with Rules
17The Knock
2A Good Chair and a Bad Story
18The Price of Privacy
3What Came in the Container
19The Call I Didn’t Make
4Supper with the Wife
20Everybody Moves
5Bible Study
21The Rules We Needed
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6The Door That Sticks
22The Work Left Behind
7Three Women and a Garden
23The Invitation
8Knock First
24What the Fire Took
9The Dance Hall
25The Chair Beside His Bed
10The Burnt Gumbo
26The Hand I Couldn’t Reach
11The Things We Keep
27What My Daughters Deserved
12The Porch Rule
28The Work That Remained
13The Offer
29The Night I Stopped Asking
14No Favor Owed
30What I Told My Daughter
15The House with Two Rooms
31Also by Barron Darby
16The Good Plates
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