Journey's End

Gilded Promises

De: Renee Ryan

Narrado por: Karen Peakes

Having grown up on the mean streets of nineteenth-century London, Caroline St. James is used to fighting to survive.

So when her beloved mother - abandoned and ignored by her wealthy family - suddenly dies, the scrappy twenty-two-year-old devises a plan to right this terrible wrong. With nothing to lose, she sails to New York to find the man who turned a cold shoulder to her mother's suffering: Caroline's grandfather. To settle the family score, Caroline infiltrates her grandfather's privileged world, hoping to sabotage his business from the inside. But as she sets her plot in motion, she meets Jackson Montgomery, a virtuous man who is struggling to recover from a family scandal of his own. As their friendship grows, and Caroline begins to piece together the motives that led her family to turn its back, she is forced to make a decision: Should she risk everything in the name of justice? Or can she look toward the future and let love and forgiveness guide her instead?

©2016 Renee Ryan (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Great book to listen to

I enjoyed listening to this book. Karen Peakes did a great job of having a different voice for every character. I also enjoyed the whole story. The characters were well written. The story kept me on my toes. I wasn't sure what the outcome would be when she met her family. I was not disappointed. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this series A Touch of Scarlet.

great story

loved the story, appreciated that there was no bad language. reader was soothing to listen to.

Saddened

I am supremely disappointed with this book. It kept turning off during the reading and I had to continually keep turning it back on. Very annoying.

Captivating

Wasn't expecting this book to be this Great. Hard to put down & beautifully narrated!!!I definitely recommended it!!!!!

Sweet story!

Redeeming love and forgiveness is this story's theme. I was captivated and blessed. May I seek Caroline's Christlikeness in my relationships!

A Beautiful Love Story

Renee Ryan has written a beautiful book about Love and the source of that Love. Read this book for pleasure and for inspiration. In the Bible, it says, "Love comes from God," (1 John 4:7) This book is a very interesting story that begins in the approach to Ellis Island from London bringing a woman with her thoughts of revenge. It seems God has a different plan.
The book has plenty of action in a backdrop of New York City when the city had horse drawn carriages and motor cars too, There are sweatshops, tenements, people coming from all over Europe, a snooty upper class and all kinds of opportunity for good and evil. Enjoy!
Love does come from God and this book gives an example of how that works.

Refreshingly...a twist of a love story!

Most love stories, romance novels are predictable. I suppose you can almost predict what happens in this story but I enjoyed the fact that it did have a twist of difference to it.

Marvelous insprirng story

The story, characters and setting resulted in a very enjoyable several hours of worthwhile entertainment. Bravo!

Overall I enjoyed this book

Overall I enjoyed this story. The story line was great. I was sometimes annoyed at the overuse of adjectives. A bit of an overkill. And the narrator did a good job. The male voices sometime made them sound a bit ignorant. But even so I did enjoy the story line very much.

great story

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

yes I feel they would love this book about forgiveness

What was one of the most memorable moments of Journey's End?

forgiveness for sure

Have you listened to any of Karen Peakes’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

no this is the first one.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

the very end for the wedding