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Vanessa Benjamin
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A lovely widow plans to marry a French count in this historical romance by best-selling author Marion Chesney.
It was true. The lovely young widow Lady Charteris - Delphine to her friends - had agreed to abide by her parents' wishes and marry the comte Saint-Pierre. Delphine's parents had long since died in the Terror, but when she learned of their wishes for her, she believed it her duty to respect their wishes. Delphine would marry, but it would be a marriage in name only.
But when Delphine saw Jules Saint-Pierre, she got the shock of her life: He was the same man she had seen juggling in the streets at a local fair. What was he doing as the comte Saint-Pierre? Was he posing? Had she made some terrible mistake?
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Story4 out of 5 stars 686
Lady Jane Lovelace has conceived the idea of approaching the most notorious man-about-town, Lord Charles Welbourne, with a most unique proposition. When he counters her offer with a condition that he thinks will halt her impudence, much to the surprise of both, she accepts. A novel of passion and intrigue, The Westerby Inheritance is a thrilling installment in an emotionally charged romantic saga, all played out against a backdrop of elegant 18th-century society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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NOT like Marion Chesney's other romances!
- By DatPixieGirl on 06-11-19
By: M. C. Beaton
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The Original Miss Honeyford
- By: M. C. Beaton
- Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 648
Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband - and being a loving (if not entirely dutiful) daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surrender her hand, this beautiful young lady who could ride, shoot, and argue with any man was not about to lose her head or heart to the dismal dandies of the Marriage Mart. First she met the arrogantly attractive Lord Alistair Stewart, who treated her infuriatingly like a little girl. And then she met the skillfully seductive Lord Channington, who treated her intoxicatingly like a desirable woman....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful!!
- By Lady M on 08-16-13
By: M. C. Beaton
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The First Rebellion
- The Waverly Women, Book 1
- By: Marion Chesney
- Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 538
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 497
The Earl of Tredair has had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and he despairs of finding someone extraordinary - that is, until he meets Miss Fanny Waverley. Most unique and intriguing, Fanny and her two sisters are the adopted daughters of the reclusive bluestocking Madame Waverley. They have been raised as her disciples to spread the word of women's rights and to encourage poor oppressed females to stand up against the iniquities of the male sex. The beautiful and farouche Miss Fanny, however, finds it quite difficult to think of all men as cruel and lustful beasts....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not up to Chesney's Usual Standards
- By Nancy J on 07-29-14
By: Marion Chesney
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The Bad Miss Bennet
- A Novel
- By: Jean Burnett
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 139
Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and was the first to get married. She never could understand what all the fuss was about after she left Brighton with her gallant. It is a shame, though, that Mr. Wickham turned out to be a disappointing husband in so many aspects, the most notable being his early demise on the battlefields of Waterloo. And so Lydia, still not yet twenty and full of enterprising spirit, is in urgent need of a wealthy replacement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great fun
- By MMRudy on 12-19-12
By: Jean Burnett
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A Beastly Kind of Earl
- Longhope Abbey, Book .5
- By: Mia Vincy
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,166
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,038
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032
Thea Knight loves a spot of mischief. She especially loves her current mischief: masquerading as her sister, while finalizing her scheme to expose the dastardly knaves whose lies ruined her life. Then big, bad-tempered Lord Luxborough upends her game by maneuvering her into marriage. But it's her sister’s name on the license, so the marriage won’t be valid. Thea’s idea? Keep pretending to be her sister until she can run away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A slow burn romance
- By Kika on 06-11-20
By: Mia Vincy
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Silent in the Grave
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,825
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,206
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197
Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Happily surprised
- By 9S on 07-04-09
By: Deanna Raybourn
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Wild Wicked Scot
- The Highland Grooms, #1
- By: Julia London
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 282
Born into riches and groomed in English luxury, Margot Armstrong didn't belong in a Scottish chieftain's devil-may-care world. Three years ago she fled their marriage of convenience and hasn't looked back - except to relive the moments spent in wild, rugged Arran McKenzie's passionate embrace. But as their respective countries' fragile unity threatens to unravel, Margot must return to her husband to uncover his role in the treachery before her family can be accused of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Scottish Romance I've Read in Years!
- By LilMissMolly on 06-25-17
By: Julia London
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The Belly of Paris
- By: Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - translator
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Although it is little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is considered one of Émile Zola’s best novels. Set in the newly built food markets of Paris, it is a story of wealth and poverty set against a sumptuous banquet of food and commerce. Having just escaped from prison after being wrongfully accused, young Florent arrives at Paris’ food market, Les Halles, half starved, surrounded by all he can’t have, and indignant at his world, which he now knows to be unjust. He finds that the city’s working classes have been displaced to make way for bigger streets and bourgeois living quarters, so he settles in with his brother’s family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not keen on Davidson’s voice
- By Jeff Lacy on 05-08-21
By: Émile Zola, and others
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That Scandalous Evening
- The Governess Brides, Book 1
- By: Christina Dodd
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd spins the captivating tale of a nobleman whose path crosses again with the one woman he absolutely cannot resist....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Heroine's a pathetic doormat
- By karen on 03-26-21
By: Christina Dodd
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The Scoundrel's Daughter
- Brides of Bellaire Gardens Series, Book 1
- By: Anne Gracie
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Stopped listening @ Ch14 bc of coercive "romance"
- By potsherds on 01-20-22
By: Anne Gracie
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The Secret Countess
- By: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Heavily edited
- By Melissa Keating on 06-21-16
By: Eva Ibbotson
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Marry in Haste
- Marriage of Convenience Series, Book 1
- By: Anne Gracie
- Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 387
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 359
Major Calborne Rutherford returns to England on the trail of an assassin, only to find he's become Lord Ashendon, with the responsibility for vast estates and dependent relatives. Cal can command the toughest of men, but his wild half-sisters are quite another matter. They might just be his undoing. When he discovers that Miss Emmaline Westwood, the girls' former teacher, guides them with ease, Cal offers her a marriage of convenience.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ruined by the robotic narrator.
- By Cate F. on 05-29-17
By: Anne Gracie
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His Mistress by Morning
- By: Elizabeth Boyle
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
When a promised inheritance turns out to be a fraud, shy spinster Charlotte Wilmont makes an impetuous wish that despite her lack of charm and fortune, she could capture the heart of the one man whom she's forever adored - Sebastian, Viscount Trent. With that utterance, Charlotte awakens shocked to find herself entwined with her beloved Sebastian. But the respectable man she knew is now a most rakish devil and she is...well, by some inexplicable magic, London's most infamous mistress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Boyle Book so far
- By Arcadia on 11-25-20
By: Elizabeth Boyle
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One Night in London
- The Truth About the Duke, Book 1
- By: Caroline Linden
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 74
With One Night in London, the sensational Caroline Linden kicks off a wonderful new historical romance series about three brothers trying to protect their good names and their fortunes while finding true love. Fans of Elizabeth Boyle and Liz Carlyle will not be able to resist this tantalizing tale that has the middle son of a recently deceased English duke hoping to avoid scandal and ruin as he searches for the young wife his late father never divorced…and encounters instead a desperate beauty who needs his help to rescue an endangered child.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beware!!
- By ParkerCD on 02-11-24
By: Caroline Linden
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Something About Emmaline
- Bachelor Chronicles Series 1
- By: Elizabeth Boyle
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 343
Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, is a gentleman to be envied. He lives a rakish life of well-celebrated ease and contentment and has one person to thank for his perfectly ordered existence - his dearest wife, Emmaline. She never complains about his mistresses or his penchant for late nights out. His friends are envious, but they don't know the truth - Emmaline doesn't exist. But when he starts receiving bills from London for clothes, shoes, hats, and a staggering amount of other female accouterments, he realizes something is decidedly amiss.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Emmaline, the perfect wife, until.......
- By bebe on 07-07-20
By: Elizabeth Boyle
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Kit and Elizabeth
- By: Karen Tuft
- Narrated by: Luone Ingram
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Lady Elizabeth Spaulding’s world has fallen apart. Despite living her entire life to please her demanding parents, the Duke and Duchess of Marwood, she has little to show for it. After Elizabeth’s second failed betrothal, her father’s debts and appalling acts of retaliation force him to flee the country, consigning Elizabeth and her bitter mother to a life of poverty and exile. But Elizabeth’s fortunes change one day when an elderly acquaintance makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
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1 out of 5 stars
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don’t waist a credit
- By katlehmann on 05-27-21
By: Karen Tuft
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And Then He Kissed Her
- By: Laura Lee Guhrke
- Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
An expert in etiquette, Emma takes her pristine reputation most seriously. But the devilish Lord Marlowe is determined to prove that some rules of proper behavior are made to be broken....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love the story, but the narrator misses the mark
- By Lady Wesley on 05-19-20
By: Laura Lee Guhrke
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The Pretenders
- By: Joan Wolf
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Deborah Woodly agreed to a pretend engagement with Reeve, Earl of Cambridge, because his straitlaced uncle wouldn’t let him touch his inheritance before his 26th birthday. Not unless he contracted a marriage, which would presumably “settle” him. Deb and Reeve promised not to fall in love, or marry, but to ultimately declare they wouldn’t suit. Broken promises, but also someone was trying to kill Deb.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No pretending...
- By 🌿🌸Susynne🌸🌿 on 04-10-18
By: Joan Wolf