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To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne

To Have and to Hold: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Wedding Belles series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the To Have and to Hold audiobook runs 8.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Vanessa Daniels (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.4listening hrs
Modernstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish To Have and to Hold at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.4 hours, it runs longer than 55% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Wedding Belles

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 23.8 hours in all.

About as long, on the Modern shelf

3,319 Modern 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

To Have and to Hold is book 1 of Lauren Layne's Wedding Belles series: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Vanessa Daniels, released December 15, 2016, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.4 hrs
Narrated by
Vanessa Daniels
Released
December 15, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Modern, Fiction
Series
Wedding Belles #1
ISBN
9781515984917

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the To Have and to Hold audiobook?

To Have and to Hold runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.

Is the To Have and to Hold audiobook free?

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

Who narrates To Have and to Hold?

To Have and to Hold is narrated by Vanessa Daniels.