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Rockliffe, Book 2
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The Duke of Rockliffe is 36 years old, head of his house, and responsible for his young sister, Nell. He is, therefore, under some pressure to choose a suitable bride. Whilst accompanying Nell to what he speedily comes to regard as the house-party from hell, he meets Adeline Kendrick - acid-tongued, no more than passably good-looking yet somehow alluring. Worse still, her relatives are quite deplorable - from a spoiled, ill-natured cousin to a sadistic, manipulative uncle. As a prospective bride, therefore, Adeline is out of the question. Until, that is, a bizarre turn of events cause the Duke to throw caution to the wind and make what his world will call a mésalliance.
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- De: Tracy Anne Warren
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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When a royal summons from her brother arrives, Emma knows it's time to embrace her duties as the princess of a small European kingdom and marry the man her brother has chosen for her, a stranger she has never met. Instead, she does what any self-respecting princess would do - she runs away. All she wants is one week in London. One week to experience everything life has to offer, before she is locked away in a loveless marriage forever. Former naval captain Nick Gregory has inherited a title he never wanted.
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GOOD - BUT I THOUGHT BOOK 2 WAS BETTER
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 12-23-12
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The Truth About Love and Dukes
- Dear Lady Truelove
- De: Laura Lee Guhrke
- Narrado por: Carolyn Morris
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Henry, Duke of Torquil, wouldn't be caught reading the wildly popular "Dear Lady Truelove" column, but when its advice causes his mother to embark on a scandalous elopement, an outraged Henry decides the author of this tripe must be stopped before she can ruin any more lives. Though Lady Truelove's identity is a closely guarded secret, Henry has reason to suspect the publisher of the notorious column, beautiful and provoking Irene Deverill, is also its author.
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One of the very best...EVER!
- De Morgan Mc Glacken en 08-23-17
De: Laura Lee Guhrke
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Devil's Cub
- De: Georgette Heyer
- Narrado por: Michael Drew
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father's before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist and gamester called "the Devil's Cub". But when he is forced to leave the country, Mary Challoner discovers his fiendish plan to abduct her sister. Any only by daring to impersonate her can Mary save her sibling from certain ruin.
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Clever heroine, vivid characters and laughter
- De Janet en 09-09-08
De: Georgette Heyer
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Tempted by His Kiss
- De: Tracy Anne Warren
- Narrado por: Rebecca De Leeuw
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Orphaned beauty Meg Amberley never planned to pose as Lord Cade Byron's fiancée. Caught in a snowstorm, she takes refuge at his estate. Stranded together, Meg soon finds herself falling under Cade's spell. When the roads clear, she intends to leave, but fate intervenes. Haunted by his past, Cade Byron has buried himself in the country. Then Meg - with her lush curves - invades his house and his life. With her reputation compromised, he proposes a pretend engagement and a London season where she can find a husband.
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Pretty darn good!
- De xmom en 05-10-19
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Where Dreams Begin
- De: Lisa Kleypas
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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Zachary Bronson has built an empire of wealth and power. Now he is seeking a wife to help secure his position in the ton...as well as warm his bed in private. But not just any woman will do for one of London's most notorious rakes. When he meets Lady Holly Taylor, he surrenders to the temptation to take her in his arms and kiss her. Yet he's pleasantly surprised to discover her fierce passions match his own.
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Duplicate book!
- De E en 06-02-22
De: Lisa Kleypas
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It Happened One Season
- De: Stephanie Laurens, Mary Balogh, Jacquie D'Alessandro, y otros
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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Four amazing talents have come together to create one of the most unforgettable events of the year. The results are spectacular - each story is as unique as a lover's first kiss.
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Another great one, but...
- De Amazon Customer en 05-02-11
De: Stephanie Laurens, y otros
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Potent Pleasures
- The Pleasures Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Eloisa James
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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Reckless desire sends Charlotte Daicheston into the garden with a dashing masked stranger. He's powerful and unforgettable, a devastatingly handsome footman who lures her - not against her will - into a grand indiscretion at a masquerade ball. Then he vanishes. Several years later, after Charlotte has made her dazzling debut in London society, they meet again. But the rogue is no footman. He's rich, titled, and he doesn't remember Charlotte. Worse, he's the subject of some scandalous gossip.
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A Mind "F" in the Best Possible Way
- De Cynthia en 12-23-14
De: Eloisa James
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The Cross of Love
- Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 1
- De: Barbara Cartland
- Narrado por: Anthony Wren
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of "The Grange". And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendship, the sweetest one of her life. But her new happiness is threatened by Mr. Wyngate, a wealthy man determined to force the Earl to marry his daughter.
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The Cross of Love
- De Cindy H. en 06-11-17
De: Barbara Cartland
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The Scoundrel's Daughter
- Brides of Bellaire Gardens Series, Book 1
- De: Anne Gracie
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Alice, Lady Charlton, is finally free of her dominating husband, but on the verge of her new life, she is trapped when a blackmailer threatens to publish letters that could ruin her. To protect the secrets of her past Alice must find a lord for his daughter, Lucy, to marry. Alice reluctantly agrees to find the girl a noble husband but when Lucy arrives, she's difficult and uncooperative and has no interest in her father's scheme. A lord, she says, will only look down his nose at her-and she's having none of that! Desperate, Alice enlists the aid of her handsome young nephew.
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Stopped listening @ Ch14 bc of coercive "romance"
- De potsherds en 01-20-22
De: Anne Gracie
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His Wicked Reputation
- De: Madeline Hunter
- Narrado por: Mary Jane Wells
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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Gareth Fitzallen is celebrated for four things: his handsome face, his notable charm, his aristocratic connections, and an ability to give the kind of pleasure that has women begging for more. Normally he bestows his talents on experienced, worldly women. But when he heads to Langdon's End to restore a property he inherited - and to investigate a massive art theft - he lays plans to seduce a most unlikely lady.
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Surprisingly good!
- De Jonna en 03-28-15
De: Madeline Hunter
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A Wicked Pursuit
- A Breconridge Brothers Novel
- De: Isabella Bradford
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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In Isabella Bradford’s enthralling new trilogy, three noble brothers - London’s most scandalous rakes - are about to do the unthinkable: settle down. Harry Fitzroy, Earl of Hargreave, is the first to meet his match and lose his heart...to a lady who’s not all what he expected. As the eldest son of the Duke of Breconridge, Harry Fitzroy is duty-bound to marry - and marry well. Giving up his rakish ways for the pleasures of a bride’s bed becomes a delightful prospect when Harry chooses beautiful Lady Julia Barclay, the catch of the season.
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Great performance... Okay storyline.
- De Ladonna en 09-29-17
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Rumours & Recklessness
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- De: Nicole Clarkston
- Narrado por: Stevie Zimmerman
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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Fitzwilliam Darcy is desperate. Finally confronted with a woman who ignites all his hopes, he agonizes over the cruel trick of fate which placed her in a situation beneath his notice. The morning after the Netherfield ball, he resolves to put as much distance between himself and her as possible.
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Wonderful , I’m still smiling!
- De Patti en 08-09-19
De: Nicole Clarkston
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Excellent romance set during the Restoration
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Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar young boys, he enters a world unlike any he's ever known. Darkness abounds, punctuated by odd bumps in the night, strange creatures on the moor, and a sinister silver mist that never seems to dissipate. And at the center of it all, John's new employer - a widow as alluring as she is mysterious.
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When their elderly guardian dies, Faith Whitford is determined to set up house in Bath and look for respectable country gentlemen for her four sisters. She has no ambitions for mingling with the ton. What she did not expect was a new guardian, in the form of a London Beau to be appointed over them, nor that he would take any interest in their care.
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Very elegant and intoxicating listen
I loved this. It is the second Stella Riley novel I have listened to and aside from Alex Wyndham breathing a life into characters that only he can do, the story itaelf was rich and mature, the plot well set. xx
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- Patricia
- 05-21-19
Simply Wonderful
Stella Riley's clever, romantic, and honorable characters come vividly alive through the sublime narration of Alex Wyndham. His voice is like liquid velvet. The characters' personalities are defined by intelligent dialogue and the various voices Wyndham employs. Listening is a pleasure.
This book as well as the first in the Rockliffe series are among the best I have listened to in my many years of enjoying audio books. I can't wait to begin book three! Great storytelling!!
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- 06-20-22
Almost perfect! Listen to it!
Narrator makes this a story not to be missed. Great hero and heroine, Truly awful family villains both male and female, but the friends more than make up for them, everyone should have such friends.
Rags to riches love story! And of course many misunderstandings Oh Well off you go on an adventure with lots of humor
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- 05-15-18
Stella Riley Rocks!
The second book in the Rockliffe Series features Tracy Wynstanton, Duke of Rockliffe aka Rock. I enjoyed this book very much. I have always preferred The Regency Period and never really read any books that took place in The Georgian Period. I find I like this time period for the same reasons that Stella does. The men are sexier and masculine in their wardrobes and Stella's descriptions are like the cream on top of the ambrosia.
Rock is a Duke whose gravitas makes him a figure to be admired by men and women alike. He has a wicked wit with a mischievousness that his friends encourage. He is a perfect Gentleman who will protect his family with his life. He is handsome and charming on the outside with a heart of gold hidden beneath his lace and brocade. A side that he shows only to his family and closest friends. He has never had a serious romantic relationship with any proper lady. He realizes that now at the age of
36 he must start looking for his Duchess. His requirements for a wife are simple, be well bred with the grace to be his partner in promoting and protecting his Dukedom and advancing the causes that are important to both of them. She must be willing to chaperone his younger sister through Society and most of all, SHE MUST NOT BORE HIM. The last requirement is going to be difficult. He has no interest in empty-headed chits.
He younger sister Nell is so excited that her brother is chaperoning her to the house party of her friend Diana. Rock is not impressed with Diana and most of the guests at the party. Two weeks of hell!! The lady of the house was a simpering sycophant that Rock planned on avoiding at all costs. Matchmaking mothers are to be avoided at all costs. When he is introduced to the lady's companion he is intrigued. He knows her, he encountered her numerous times while out riding in the country. She was young, vivacious, and full of life. Time has not been kind to her. He is surprised in the change in her, now a poor relation with a spiteful tongue. He is intrigued and is determined to bring her out of the shadows and find out what happened to her.
Adeline wants nothing to do with anyone at the party and especially Rock. She is not the same young girl she was years ago. Life has not been kind to her, an orphan who now exists on the perimeters of dead mothers family. Her Aunt and Cousin have drained any desire for life with their constant cruelties, insults and forced servitude. She has learned the best way to survive is to be invisible. Now Rockliffe remembers her and is making her life difficult.
When Adeline's aunt informs the guests that the party will have an odd number of ladies due to one of the guests declining due to illness. Rock immediately suggests that Adeline could even up the numbers and insists that she be able to join the party. Adeline is furious with Rock for bringing her out of the background. Her Aunt and Cousin Diana are going to make her sorry. Diana is a spoiled, selfish, spiteful brat that knows the world revolves around her and is livid at Adeline. Rock knows exactly what kind of young lady is and wants nothing to do with her. Diana is furious that Rock is paying more attention to his mouse of a cousin then her. She decides it is time for Rock to make her his Duchess and sets up a trap for him that will result in her being compromised and he will have to marry her. Only Adeline finds out about it and rescues Rock. Diana is beyond angry and attacks Adeline after Rock has left the room. When Rock comes back to check in on her, he is furious at her condition and tries to help her repair her gown. Impulsively he drops a brief kiss on her lips and of course, that's when they are discovered.
Rock is surprised how much he wants her and he really does want to marry her. Adeline is confused, and afraid but agrees to the marriage. Rock has never felt this way about a young lady before and is finding himself looking forward to all that this marriage will bring to both of them. He knows that Adeline needs time to adjust to her new life and he agrees to delay the consummation until they know each other better. Adeline is overwhelmed by his generosity, kindness, and respect. She begins to believe that she could love him and be very happy.
When Adeline's evil Uncle reveals something horrible about her mother she is shocked and pays him the money he demands to keep him from telling Rock. It will destroy her and her marriage and she will do anything to protect Rock. Things go progressively downhill from there. Rock doesn't understand why she is pulling away from him and she won't talk to him. He has such high hopes for this marriage and he suspects that Adeline is being threatened but she won't tell him. They grow farther and farther apart and comes to a climax in a way that could be the end of any chance of a happy ending.
Stella writes a stunningly beautiful story full of heartbreaking sorrow, and a love that will make you laugh and weep. I loved the last few chapters when Rock opened himself up and let the world know how much he loved Adeline and will ruin anyone who hurt her. You see a side of him that he has kept hidden away, how deeply he can love and how he will do anything to keep Adeline and make her happy. I am actually tearing up thinking about the way Stella let Rock reveal his love for Adeline. I highly recommend this book and I cannot wait for the next one. Of course, listening to Alex Wyndham brings the book to life in a way only he can do.
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- Sharon
- 06-16-19
Ouch!
By the end, I had a headache from rolling my eyes. I've never read a book with so many misunderstandings between the main characters. Just silly. But the narrator was great, as he always is.
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- KIM
- 04-14-16
LOVED IT
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I hesitated taking the second book as I didn't think it would be as good as the first but boy was I wrong. I loved Book 1 and this was just as good if not better.
Who was your favorite character and why?
All the characters were good. Dry, witty, humorous.
What about Alex Wyndham’s performance did you like?
He is the best.
Any additional comments?
When I arrived home last night I realized that I had had a smile on my face for the whole hour and twenty minutes. I loved it. Can't wait till the next one.
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- LilMissMolly
- 10-17-19
Perfect for Georgette Heyer fans!
If you are a Georgette Heyer fan, you should listen to this audiobook. It is probably the best book I've ever listened to from the Georgian time period. I was reluctant to listen to it because I kept tripping over the title, which translates to "a marriage with a person of inferior social position." However, in this story, the match is perfect! You have a pompous duke brought to his knees by a down-to-earth bluestocking. More heroines should be like Adeline. And the narrator, Alex Wyndham, was pure perfection. Bravo!
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- PennyLou
- 06-21-21
Very very annoying leading lady.
It's a testament to Stella Riley's talent at great character development that the female lead character was aggravating and annoying. I was ready to scream at times. But...the story is excellent as are the supporting characters. And of course, Alex Wyndham did an outstanding job.
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- Karina
- 06-24-16
Couldn't stop listening
I thouroughly enjoyed this book! I loved the plot, the side stories and the excellent performance of the narrator.
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- BJ's Reviews
- 04-24-16
Scandalous Beginnings Lead to Perfect Endings
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4.5 for the story and 5 Stars for Alex Wyndham's narration!
Having fallen in love with the Duke of Rockliffe from his role in The Parfit Knight, nevermind the oh so soothing and sexy voice of Alex Wyndham (who narrates this series), I just knew I had to listen to The Mesalliance to get Rockliffe's story. Delivering another thoroughly enchanting and heartfelt tale, Ms. Stella Riley has impressed me yet again with her true gift for romantic writing.
As the head of his family, the Duke of Rockliffe's days as a bachelor are inevitably limited. So when his duties lead him to quite the dreaded house party--as the escort for his sister who is also in the market for a suitable match and has her own ideas as to who might be a proper duchess for Rockliffe--the Duke maneuvers what could be quite the scandalous situation into a solution for his familial obligations and his need for a wife.
Adeline Kendrick has been plagued by misfortune since her childhood when a series of unfortunate events end up with her being left with her Aunt and Uncle to be raised. In this household she is treated like quite the cinderella, frequently used to clean up after her two cousins and made to feel like she doesn't belong. Adeline being quite spirited and quick witted, however, survives as best she can and has learned how to deliver little spiteful blows that generally go unnoticed given her shrewdness (and the lack thereof by her Aunt and her favorite, spoiled daughter, Cousin Diana, who are particularly disdainful of Adeline and have their own plans for turning Diana into the future Duchess of Rockcliffe).
Rockcliffe never imagined marrying for love. His only expectations were to fulfill his obligations. And Adeline certainly never expected to escape her evil Aunt's and Uncle's grasp (though the truly evil Uncle is her Aunt's brother, not her Aunt's husband--who seems, along with one of the cousins, to have some altruism to his disposition though its generally squelched by the general black heartedness of the Aunt and Diana); much less be presented with such a higher station. However, when everyone has an opinion as to who should be the future Duchess of Rockcliffe, and many are willing to manipulate the situation to make it happen or at the very least to manipulate the situation for their own advantage, and given her own bold and unlikely background, could there possibly be a HEA in the future for her and Rockcliffe?
As for the narration, Alex Wyndham's performance is simply perfection. Mr. Wyndham's voice is just so dramatically appealing and his attention to the detail of the specific story being told is superb. This is now my third book by Mr. Wyndham and I am clamoring for more.
One of the features that makes Mr. Wyndham's narrations so amazing is his ability to create highly differentiated and personality specific voices for each one of the characters. From the aristocratic and tongue in cheek humor that is so characteristic of Rockcliffe, to the generally somber and yet intellectual voice of Adeline, Mr. Wyndham does perfect justice to the characters that Ms. Riley has penned.
Lovers of historical romance and audiobooks will not want to miss this gem (in fact, the entire series should be on your TBL). Now I can't wait to listen to the third and final book in this series, The Player.
Source: Review copy provided in exchange for an honest review.
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