The One You're With

By: Lauren K. Denton

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Written in Lauren K. Denton’s signature Southern style, The One You’re With tells the story of a seemingly perfect marriage rocked by secrets from the past.

High-school sweethearts Mac and Edie Swan lead a seemingly picture-perfect life in the sleepy-sweet community of Oak Hill, near Mobile, Alabama. Edie is a respected interior designer, Mac is a beloved pediatrician, and they have two great kids and a historic home on tree-lined Linden Avenue. From the outside, the Swan family is the definition of “the good life.” And life is good—mostly. Until a young woman walks into Mac’s office one day. A young woman whose very existence threatens all Mac and Edie have built and all they think they know about each other.

Nineteen years after a summer apart, with a family and established lives and careers, the past that Mac and Edie thought they left behind has come back to greet them. For the first time, constants in their lives are called into question: their roles as parents, their reputation as upstanding members of the community, and the very foundations of their marriage. As they wade through the upheaval in both their family and professional lives, they must each examine choices they made long ago and chart a new course for their future.

• Full-length Southern women’s fiction
• Stand-alone novel
• Book length: 116,000 words
• Also by Lauren K. Denton: The Hideaway, Hurricane Season, Glory Road, The Summer House

©2021 Lauren K. Denton (P)2021 Thomas Nelson

Good listen

Good story. I was troubled by the offense caused by a very short hook-up that had occurred the summer after high-school graduation AFTER both teens had broken up and gone their separate ways briefly. Give the guy a break, drama queen. Kind of stuff for daytimetalk shows (w/o the foul language).

love conquerers All!

loved the story !The narrators voice is soothing bringing you into the story .Hard to stop listening yet not wanting it to end.

Enjoyable

Performed well, the reader was enjoyable and not annoying. Decent story. I slow the playing speed a bit so I don’t feel like I’m stressing to hear every word.

Loved it!

Well written and thoughtful story about the complications of marriage and friendships. The narrator made the story come to life- excellent!

Riveting!

I loved this book. It’s “real talk” about a very real marriage and the (extreme and not so extreme) bump and rides which naturally comes with marriage. I also loved Edie’s professional pursuits and the individual growth of all the characters. Read it!

Best Thus Far

Loved it. Serious considerstion to the path chosen vs what if - was refreshing, because its not depicted often. This was really good

Loved this book!

When I'm reading or listening to a book I can imagine myself being able to feel what the characters are going through. I hope this book was made into a movie! Thank you Lauren K. Denton and thank you to the narrator Caroline Hewitt.

Great storyline!

Interesting story like I have never read before! I felt it ended rather abruptly but am thinking maybe it could continue in another book!

Real, and sweet.

This rendering of LKD’s latest book has such pathos and humanity; it explores the full range of emotions that we can encounter in our daily lives. Characters unwittingly behave recklessly, burying the past - but eventually have to come to a total reckoning and acceptance of the fallout. Warmly delivered with a range of character voices and personalities by the reader.
Highly recommended.

I wish life was so easy!!

Narrators did a good work. Story line was weak, so predictable. Just had to listen to the end.