How long does it take to read Petals on the River?
Petals on the River by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss takes about 10 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 551 pages, about 151,525 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A proud and spirited woman whose life was stolen from her. . .A man of secrets accused of a terrible crime. . .In a place of new beginnings their destinies are joined—in a gloriously romantic new work from the incomparable storyteller. The fiery and outspoken adopted daughter of one of England's most formidable a women, Shemaine O'Hearn has made powerful enemies. And now her adversaries have found a way to remove the hot-blooded beauty from her life of privilege: by falsely convicting Shemaine of thievery and sending her in shackles to America, where she is to be sold in indentured servitude to the highest bidder. In a bustling port city in the colony of Virginia, she becomes the servant of Gage Thornton—a shipbuilder with a young child in need of a nanny. And despite whispered rumors condemning the handsome widower for the untimely death of his wife, Shemaine cannot ignore her desire for this caring, generous and enigmatic stranger who silently aches with his growing need for her—even as grave peril reaches out from across a vast ocean to threaten their flowering love
Subjects: Fiction, Love stories, History, Historical fiction, Virginia, Fiction, romance, historical, general
