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When a music superstar returns to her hometown, can she learn how to help those who need her the most?
Tess “Mac” McPhail is one of country music's brightest lights, a millionaire many times over, accustomed to public adoration and a life lived on her own terms. Now, eighteen years after she left her hometown, Mac's sisters insist she return to help care for their widowed mother. There Mac faces several rude awakenings—an insulting older sister, an intractable parent, and worst of all, the apparent total indifference of Kenny, the neighbor she taunted through high school and who is now a handsome divorcee.
When Mac discovers that Kenny's daughter, Casey, is a promising country-music talent, she becomes the girl's mentor. Their shared concern for Casey transforms Mac and Kenny's relationship. Can the once-pampered star finally learn to treasure family and community above the spotlight and millions of adoring fans?
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
High school principal Tom Gardner feels a sense of shock when he sees Kent Arens, a new transfer student. With one glance, Tom can see that this teenager is the son he never knew he had - the result of a one-night stand on the eve of his wedding years before, now grown into an intelligent, athletic, and polite young man. But the boy's presence has a devastating effect on Tom's family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional, heartbreaking and tender
- By Lia on 03-14-22
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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A Promise to Cherish
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Carolyn Jania
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story3 out of 5 stars 10
Lee Walker knows it won't be easy to start a new life in a new city. But she is on a mission: to prove to everyone, and to herself, that she can make it here, working in the masculine world of the construction industry. When contracting rival Sam Brown offers her a job, Lee is stunned and a little wary. Sam's motives seem honorable enough, even if he doesn't see her in a strictly professional light. In fact, Sam sees her as the woman she's always hoped to be—smart, capable, warm, funny, and sexy. Before she knows it, Lee is falling head over heels for her boss.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not a fan
- By Anonymous User on 01-31-25
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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Twice Loved
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Five long years ago, Laura Dalton stood on the bleak Nantucket shore waiting for her beloved husband Rye to return—until the day she learned his ship was lost at sea. Now, Laura's lonely heart has found solace in Dan, Rye's closest friend. Dan has been a beacon of light in her time of darkness, becoming a father to the child that Rye never knew and giving her a reason to live again. But who could foretell that a wind-roughened sailor with sun-bleached hair would come back into their lives? That Laura's heart could betray her soul? That Rye would come home again . . .
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3 out of 5 stars
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don't know if I'll be able to finish it!
- By lisam5305 on 10-12-22
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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Family Blessings
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Lee Reston has a fulfilling life imbued with the love of her three wonderful children. Then a shattering event - the loss of her oldest son, Greg - tears her world apart. In her anguish, she turns to police officer Christopher Lallek, Greg's best friend. Their shared mourning develops into friendship, and then something deeper. But life is never simple. The family that was once the core of her existence becomes a mixed blessing, as Lee explores where family ties end - and her needs as a woman begin.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wish I loved it, but I didn't
- By Lia on 03-16-22
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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Years
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 273
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 270
Linnea Bradenborg expects to find culture and excitement in Alamo, North Dakota, where she's recently been hired as the new schoolteacher. Instead, she finds a sparse little town in the middle of nowhere. Better yet, her train is met by a cantankerous wheat farmer named Theodore Westgaard who doesn't bother to hide his displeasure when he discovers that L. I. Brandenborg is a woman and not the man he was expecting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Original Age Gap, Single Dad Romance
- By Sabrina (@romance.and.raindrops) on 08-07-23
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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The Gamble
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story5 out of 5 stars 138
Agatha was the picture of primness and propriety, but her green eyes could blaze with anger - or sparkle with humor. Scott was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong. They were enemies, then friends. Then the sweet innocence of a child opened their eyes and their hearts - and they were reborn in each other's arms by the soft, wondrous gift of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful love story.
- By Connie on 08-24-21
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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Small Town Girl
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 944
Eighteen years ago, Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri, for the bright lights of Nashville and never looked back. Now, one of country music's biggest stars, "Mac" is a hardworking woman with little time for a personal life - until her sister insists she come home to help care for their widowed mother. The welcome Mac receives is less than warm, especially from her former next-door neighbor Kenny Kronek. With a teenage daughter to raise, the handsome divorce refuses to give Mac the time of day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Quite unkind towards certain people
- By Christy on 06-24-23
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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The Endearment
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 191
Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme - to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota. A kind and gentle man, Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions. But there was still one burning secret she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love they had come to cherish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- By Lia on 08-07-21
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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That Camden Summer
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 177
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story5 out of 5 stars 159
It is 1916, and Roberta Jewett is surprised to find that her hometown of Camden, Maine, considers a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Embittered by her painful marriage to an unfaithful husband, she has no intention of being any man's victim again. So Roberta is taken aback to find the widowed carpenter Gabriel Farley has somehow found his way into her heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trigger warning-rape
- By Triple Joy on 11-13-23
By: LaVyrle Spencer
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Bygones
- By: LaVyrle Spencer
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Bess Curran, 40, is an interior designer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, still lonely and bitter after her traumatic divorce six years earlier. Her adult daughter, Lisa, anxious for her parents to reconcile, arranges a surprise dinner meeting where she informs them that she is pregnant and about to marry. Bess and former husband, Michael (he left her for another woman, who, in turn, has just left him), can barely control their mutual animosity yet must come to grips with the startling news.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pure Misogyny
- By M. Vela on 09-09-23
By: LaVyrle Spencer