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A Beauty Refined by Tracie Peterson

A Beauty Refined: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Sapphire Brides series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Beauty Refined runs 10 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Melissa Hurst (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 10 hours, it is shorter than 55% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Sapphire Brides

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 10.3 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 30.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1A Treasure Concealed10.3 hrs
2A Beauty Refined10 hrs
3A Love Transformed9.9 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

3,424 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

A Beauty Refined is book 2 of Tracie Peterson's Sapphire Brides series: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Melissa Hurst, released July 5, 2016, on the Historical (Fiction) and Religious Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10 hrs
Narrated by
Melissa Hurst
Released
July 5, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Religious Fiction
Series
Sapphire Brides #2
ISBN
9781501920189

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Beauty Refined as an audiobook?

A Beauty Refined runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.

Is A Beauty Refined free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates A Beauty Refined?

A Beauty Refined is narrated by Melissa Hurst.

Is A Beauty Refined worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.3 hours.