How long does it take to read Secrets?
A Novel
Secrets by Jude Deveraux takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother’s business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and the pain of her mother’s coldness; even after meeting a man she thought she might marry, her heart still yearned for Jeff. In a decisive moment, Cassandra calls off her pending engagement and travels to Williamsburg, Virginia, to become the nanny to the now-widowed Jeff’s young daughter. But the object of her desire barely notices her. That is, until the day she hears shots coming from the mansion of an eccentric neighbor, a world-renowned actress. Stepping into a world of deception, where no one is who they claim to be, Cassandra must unravel the secrets all around her — before she and Jeff can ever find happiness together.
Subjects: Unrequited love, Fiction, Unrequited love in fiction, Nannies, Virginia, fiction, Fiction, romance, suspense
