The Voice She Gave Away

Millions know Mara Bell's voice. No one knows the woman now speaking through it.

At forty-eight, Mara is one of Britain's most celebrated audiobook narrators. Her voice has carried a bestselling fantasy series for fourteen years, paid for her father's care, and become the only part of her life she believes no one can take.

Then it disappears in the middle of a live performance.

With six weeks to finish the series finale and her family's finances beginning to collapse, Mara makes a secret offer to Samira Haddad, a night cleaner with an extraordinary ability to reproduce her voice. Samira will record the book. Mara will direct. The public will never know.

The first pages are flawless.

Then Samira asks for her name.

As the deception moves from a locked studio into contracts, headlines, and the lives of both women, Mara and Samira must confront a question neither can answer without losing something: Who owns a voice when one woman created its identity, another gives it breath, and millions believe it belongs to the first?

The Voice She Gave Away is an emotionally gripping novel about ambition, artistic ownership, unequal power, and the cost of being heard.