A Not So Convenient Marriage

By: Sandra Merville Hart

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A spinster teacher...a grieving widower...a marriage of convenience and a second chance with the man she's always loved.

When Samuel Walker proposes a marriage of convenience to Rose Hatfieldso soon after the death of his wife, she knows he doesn't love her. She's loved him since their school days. Those long-suppressed feelings spring to life as she marries him. She must sell her childhood home, quit her teaching job, and move to a new city.

Marrying Rose is harder than Samuel expected, especially with the shadow of his deceased wife everywhere in his life. And he has two young children to consider. Peter and Emma need a mother's love, but they also need to hold close the memories of their real mother as they grieve her loss.

Life as Samuel's wife is nothing like Rose hoped, and even the townspeople, who loved his first wife, make Rose feel like an outsider. The work of the farm draws the two of them closer, giving hope that they might one day become a happy family. Until the dream shatters, and the life Rose craves tumbles down around them. Only God can put these pieces back together, but the outcome may not look anything like she planned.

Nice story but...

The stories is nice but AI reading it is awful. Human reading it would have been much better. I hope that doesn't beco.e the norm.

Terrible audio ruins good story

The story was good, unfortunately the audio made it difficult to follow. Narration was without emotion, robotic. Inflection was often wrong, giving incorrect meaning to sentences. Difficult to follow who was speaking during dialogue. Will never listed to AI generated narration again

Heavy to the end

I mean, well told, but very heavy content lasted the entire book. If you’re looking for a romance, probably move along, Yes, it gets there at the very end but the journey was mainly fixated in the grief and pain, good description of how that can feel for people, not so much a leisure tale. Depends on what you’re looking for.

the story itself was great

I liked the story but the automated narration was hard to listen to. it's a much better experience with an actual human reading.

Real people read with inflection

This was a great story. I always enjoy stories from this author, but I will not likely listen to another AI-read book. There is no inflection or incorrect inflection in the voice and you can scarcely tell what character is speaking. It really detracted from the story so I have no interest in listening unless it's a real person reading it. This is a disservice to the author, who's books I otherwise always enjoy.