The Substitute Bride | A Quick Escapes Regency Romance Audiobook

📖 Chapters and cast list are provided below for your convenience. A Regency glossary is located in the channel comment below. ✨Part of the Quick Escapes collection — a complete story in a single sitting. She came to explain a delay. They welcomed her as the bride. When a broken axle strands beautiful Charlotte Pemberton on the road to her arranged wedding, her companion Eleanor Hartley rides ahead to Denby Hall with one simple task: explain the accident and return before nightfall. But Denby Hall is already waiting for a bride. The butler announces her. Lady Rothbury sweeps her inside. Lord Rothbury, who has never met his intended, bows before a hall full of guests and believes Eleanor is the woman he is meant to marry. One mistake becomes one evening. One evening becomes three days. And as Eleanor is drawn deeper into a life meant for someone else, she must discover whether the truth will cost her the one heart she never meant to win. A complete Regency romance audiobook with mistaken identity, a marriage of convenience, and a love brave enough to survive the truth. ✨ Part of the Quick Escapes collection: shorter stories, same swoony Regency romance, perfect for a lunch break, a commute, or a cozy evening. 🎭 CAST OF CHARACTERS ❧ Eleanor Hartley: our heroine; a gentleman’s daughter turned lady’s companion, six-and-twenty, fair-haired, sharp-tongued, and entirely unprepared for what three days at Denby Hall will cost her heart ❧ Lord Rothbury, Christopher: Earl of Rothbury; tall, dark-haired, sincere, and considerably less composed than an earl has any right to be in his own hall ❧ Charlotte Pemberton: the real bride; three-and-twenty, a celebrated beauty, a reluctant fiancée, and the most relieved woman in Lincolnshire by Chapter Five ❧ Lady Rothbury: Christopher’s mother; stout, silver-haired, warm, voluble, and almost certainly wiser than she lets on ❧ Mrs. Prentiss: Charlotte’s former nurse and chaperone; weathered, taciturn, and the only person in the story who sees everything coming and says nothing useful in time ❧ Yardley: butler at Denby Hall, thirty years in service; the man whose cheerful greeting started the whole disaster, and who has been counting the trunks in silence ever since ❧ Sally: the Welbourne innkeeper’s daughter; hired for one night, paid handsomely, and the unwitting linchpin of the entire plot ❧ Mrs. Cole: the village dressmaker; small, brisk, a mouth full of pins, and professionally disinclined to ask questions ❧ The Bishop: a man of the church with impeccable discretion and a chaplain who rides fast ❧ Diggory: the Pemberton coachman; a steady man of ten years’ unblemished service, undone by one axle 🔖 Use the chapters below to skip to specific parts of the video. 0:00 – Introduction 0:35 – Chapter 1: The Breakdown 14:23 – Chapter 2: The Introduction 24:18 – Chapter 3: The Note 36:58 – Chapter 4: The Deepening 49:20 – Chapter 5: The Confession 1:03:56 – Epilogue #RegencyRomance #Audiobook #CleanRomance #HistoricalRomance #RomanceAudiobook #FreeAudiobook #JaneAusten #PeriodDrama