Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest ...

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Haewon hid in her room. She stood with her back against the wall, listening to the rhythm of his footsteps, the low murmur of his voice through the walls as he addressed her mother, who was thanking him profusely and begging him to do all that he could to discreetly bring Yeonhee home.

He sounded brusque, tense. His discomfort was evident.

“Agasshi!” Maid Boram gasped, rushing over to Haewon. “You are still in that dress from this afternoon? You will catch your death. Come, let me change you.”

Haewon hadn’t changed since arriving, too soon swept into the nightmare of her missing sister. “Thank you,” she whispered as Boram stripped her down to her undergarments.