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The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature, with novels from Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Adam Sims, David Rintoul, and more, this is a chance to expand your listening with some of the greatest authors of all time.

Jane Ashcroft is trying to stay invisible. With a fake name, a clean slate, and nowhere left to run, she takes her first real job in years—walking dogs in Paradise Bluff, an exclusive Arizona community where privacy is prized and silence is expected. But her newest client lives behind locked gates and hidden doors. The security cameras are everywhere. And the rules? Strict, strange, and always changing.

At the Loomis Estate, every secret has its price. Jane is starting over in Old Saybrook, Connecticut—new town, new job, same rules: stay quiet, stay useful, stay unnoticed. But her latest client, the Loomis family, lives in a sprawling estate in the secluded coastal enclave of Fenwick, and nothing about them feels ordinary. Her employer is the family matriarch—elegant, commanding, and quick to correct. The house is filled with routines Jane must follow and expectations she simply has to meet. Then there’s Graham, the grandson.

When Lady Sophia Parsons reads the notice in the window of the haberdashery at Devon’s Mill, she has no choice other than to answer the summons. She is expected. Indeed, Lord Albion Rayment will have no other, for Sophia’s family is deeply in his debt, and he has loved her from afar for years. But Lord Albion is no longer merely the suitor her father turned away.

For Emma Jo and Buddy, for Peter and Cassidy, only love can temper the agony of their discipline. Only friendship can give them the strength to deliver a little justice of their own. As for the upperclassmen Sierra and Kevin—the conspirators who laid the trap that ensnared them in the Dare Dungeon—Nurse Reyes-Garcia and the Punishment Wardens of Huntington Regional Detention Center have a special plan, guaranteed to put them in their proper place and to show the world that all offenders are equal under law.

At Chesapeake Bay University, tomorrow is Hell Day. When freshman pledges Cassidy, Peter, Emma Jo, and Buddy are offered a way out of the mysterious initiation, little do they know they’re being played. The “dare” they must complete is a prank. They are meant to be caught—and to be found guilty, in court, of crimes for which there is only one possible sentence. Nurse Reyes-Garcia knows just what to do with misbehaving college kids. Their punishments will be carried out on live television. For two days, they’ll face their deepest, most intimate, and secret fears.

Robbie McNeal is a young man to be envied. A senator’s son, raised in wealth and privilege, he’s got everything - but all he really wants is the courage to ask out the girl in his government class. He has reached the age of transition, the final four years before all of society’s secrets are unveiled, along with the rights of full citizenship. He’s new to college, new to adulthood, and totally unprepared for the penalty he must pay when he makes one very bad decision.

Savannah Miles and Scott Lachance are the perfect college couple. They’re smart. They’re beautiful. They have common interests. At 21, both in their third year at Bridgemont University, they’ve nearly reached the end of the age of transition. And they’ve drawn the attention of Veronica Cruz and Malcolm Wiley, the two senior Skulls in a secret university society known only as The Select.