The Endearment

LaVyrle Spencer

Nov 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith

About this audiobook

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved, enduring stories . . . 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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About the author

LaVyrle Spencer is a contemporary and historical romance novelist who has written twelve New York Times bestsellers. Several of Spencer's books have been made into movies (Publishers Weekly called one of her television deals "precedent-setting") and in 1988 she was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.

Emily Sutton-Smith is a professional actress and one of the cofounders of an Equity theater in central Michigan. Her stage credits include Out of Orbit; Doublewide; Summer Retreat; Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Miracle on South Division Street; End Days; The Usual: A Musical Love Story; and The Smell of the Kill.