Charleston Charmer

By: Casey Holloway

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When Delilah Belle Beaumont sails into Charleston in 1881, she’s a woman with more secrets than trunks—and one dangerous gift she’s sworn to keep leashed. Her charm can make people adore her on sight, but admiration is a kind of hunger, and Delilah is done being anyone’s feast.

Intent on reinventing herself, she opens the Beaumont Academy for Young Ladies—a finishing school where fainting is forbidden, opinions are mandatory, and grace comes with a backbone. But Charleston’s grand dames and their Ladies’ Civic Refinement League have other ideas about what a woman should be, and Delilah’s quiet revolution soon draws both scandal and fascination.

As her lessons turn the city’s drawing rooms upside down, Delilah finds unexpected allies in the sharp-tongued bookkeeper Pearl Rivers, the curious Miss Eliza Prentiss, and a reformer with kind eyes who might just see the woman beneath the veil. Yet shadowed behind every polite smile is a whisper from her past—and a reminder that the Devil doesn’t like his daughters building schools instead of chaos.

Rich with Southern charm, sly humor, and a touch of the supernatural, Charleston Charmer is a story of women who learn to wield wit like a weapon and love like a choice.