Carrie L. Carr Audiobooks

To Hold Forever: warm, long-form romance from the Somerville series

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.8/5 average

213 listener ratings

Who is Carrie L. Carr?

Carrie L. Carr writes the kind of romance that rewards commitment. To Hold Forever belongs to the Somerville series, a continuing sequence in which the same circle of characters keeps being drawn back together, and it carries the particular pleasure of returning to people you already know.

The emphasis falls on feeling rather than incident: domestic detail, family friction, trust earned slowly and then tested. This is romance for readers who want the relationship to be the plot rather than the reward at the end of one, and the generous length of the books reflects that patience.

On our LGBTQ+ shelf it belongs with the comfort reads, the sort of title that travels by personal recommendation between readers who want queer love at the centre of a book rather than in its margins.

Carrie L. Carr in audiobooks

April Lee reads it, holding a warm, conversational tone across nearly fourteen hours, which matters enormously in a story this character-led. Listeners have rated it very highly, from a few hundred verdicts, and that is a reliable signal for a series title.

Because it sits within a sequence, the safest route in is to begin where the Somerville stories begin and let the connections accumulate; readers already invested can drop straight in. Settle in with the audiobook below when you want something that takes its time.