Restless Heart

By: Erika M Szabo

Narrated by: Mark Dunham

Born in a brothel in Paris in the early 1700s, Madeleine's future had been decided by her courtesan mother and Madame Claudine. Her innocence at age 14 would be sold to the highest bidder. She’d be treated as a usable and disposable toy to fulfill her patron’s every perverted desire until he tires of her. Then she’d become a courtesan to entertain anyone who visits the brothel.

Madeleine dreams of a better future. She runs away and finds temporary refuge in a convent, but she doesn’t have too many options when she turns 18. Either going back to the brothel, becoming a servant with an uncertain future, living her life as a nun, or becoming a filles à la cassette, one of the King’s Casket Girls, since no reputable man would marry her in France with nothing to her name. To escape her gloomy future, she sails to the New World with hopes for a better life.

What will her future hold? Will she find happiness?

©2022 Erika M Szabo (P)2022 Erika M Szabo

very good

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

A Great Journey

Restless Heart by Erika M Szabo is truly a wonderful tale. The plot follows a young woman who wants more for her life then to follow in her mothers footsteps as a brothel worker. She goes on a journey and winds up finding the true meaning of love. This as I said is a fantastic story. The characters were all great. The narrator Mark Dunham did a great job at telling the story. All in all I would recommend Restless Heart to anyone who likes romance or enjoys a story of a young person finding their way in life.