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Desperate Acts audiobook

  • By: Jane Candia Coleman
  • Narrator: Mary Peiffer
  • Category: Fiction, Sagas
  • Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
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Desperate Acts Audiobook Summary

Nan Fletcher is an abused wife whose scars are all hidden because they’re emotional. She appears to have it all–a great house, a successful professor husband, Jake, and her beautiful teenage son, Jamie–but with Jake’s constant demand for perfection, she finds that she has lost her sense of self. She only feels alive when she finds a few moments to write poems and short stories, which her husband belittles. Nan and Jamie finally get a break from overbearing Jake when they end up going on vacation to a dude ranch without him. Ranch owner Ben is the antithesis of Jake–sensitive, kind, and appreciative of all that Nan has to offer–and he and the beauty of the West show Nan that there are alternatives to her life. The two fall in love, but will Nan have the strength to act on it?

Coleman has written a striking and empowering portrait of one woman’s struggle against an insidious form of abuse.

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Desperate Acts Full Details

Narrator Mary Peiffer
Length 9 hours 3 minutes
Author Jane Candia Coleman
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9781415911594

Subjects

The publisher of the Desperate Acts is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: fiction, novels, fiction books, books fiction, romance, contemporary romance, family, chick lit, saga, relationships, mystery, drama, historical romance, historical, love, paranormal, women's fiction, friendship, modern, fantasy, paranormal romance, roman, thriller, suspense, romance novels, war, sisters, love story, romantic suspense, adoption, literary fiction, medical, world war two, england, magic, urban fantasy, relationship, marriage, horror, book series, witches, mental health, crime, coming of age, adventure, supernatural, Fiction, Sagas The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Sagas

Additional info

The publisher of the Desperate Acts is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415911594.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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