{"id":27954,"date":"2026-10-31T21:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27954"},"modified":"2026-10-31T21:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:52:24","slug":"lady-odelias-secret-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27954","title":{"rendered":"Lady Odelia&#8217;s Secret, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/123948\/9781913810184\"><em>Lady Odelia&#8217;s Secret<\/em>, Audio Book<\/a> (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Steen_Jane.php\">Jane Steen<\/a> narrated by Elizabeth Klett (Scott-De Quincy Mysteries #2)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/123948\/9781913810184\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lady-Odelias-Secret.jpg?resize=187%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lady Odelias Secret\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>Set in Sussex, England in 1882<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I felt Michael\u2014who hated to touch, or be touched by, other people\u2014flinch as I rested my fingertips as lightly as possible on his arm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI enjoy reading about people who are real to me for a short time, knowing that if terrible things happen to them, I can comfort myself in knowing they have no existence but in the writer\u2019s head.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I had worked myself up into that mood where one refuses to seek relief for one\u2019s ills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s nothing more attractive to men than a young, pretty, and wealthy widow in lavender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Lady Helena Whitcombe, Guttridge, Armand Fortier, Mr. Quinn Dermody, Mrs. Gabrielle Dermody, Michael Scott-De Quincy, Alice and Annette Scott-De Quincy, Julia Scott-De Quincy, Briggs, Sir Edward Freestone, Lady Geraldine Freestone, Odelia Scott-De Quincy, Lydia Freestone, Sir Geraint, Janie, Mountjoy, Edmund, Thomas Freestone<\/p>\n<p>Cover by Rachel Lawston<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Aspidistra Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Odelia&#8217;s Secret, Audio Book (2018) Jane Steen narrated by Elizabeth Klett (Scott-De Quincy Mysteries #2) Set in Sussex, England in 1882 I felt Michael\u2014who hated to touch, or be touched by, other people\u2014flinch as I rested my fingertips as lightly as possible on his arm. \u201cI enjoy reading about people who are real to 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