Author: M. C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney
Series: The Endearing Young Charms Series #7
Narrator: Lucy Rayner
Unabridged: 4 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 01/19/2016
"I have my pride. I have sworn to marry the girl, and marry her I will."After ten long years, the Earl of Devenham has returned to wed Mary Anstey, only to find that their feelings for each other have cooled off considerably. Nevertheless, they both put on bright faces for the benefit of family and friends.But Mary's younger sister Emily sees through their masquerade and would sacrifice anything rather than see her retiring sister married to the now-haughty earl.Desperate measures were called for: a sleeping draught in Mary's wedding-morning chocolate and Emily could don the veil and then force an annulment once the trick was discovered.It was the kind of plot that could-and would-get young Emily into trouble.
Nearly killed while trying to win back his ancestral home, Black Richard MacCullough is left scarred and mangled; but some scars run far deeper than mere skin. No longer the handsome devil or kind man of his youth, now he focuses solely on rebuildin...
“Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity.”In the teeming city of medieval Paris lives Quasimodo, a man born with a hunchback who lives in t...
A warrior with a haunted past and the lass who vows to love him forever.Loki Grant’s first memories are of living in a crate behind an inn in Ayr, struggling to survive. Clan Grant saved him from his lonely existence and took him in as one of ...
The Black Prince of England hungers to capture the lands of France, and Sir Hyatt Laidley is just the knight for the task. In exchange for years of faithful service, Hyatt will receive both land—and lady—of De La Noye in Acquitane.When H...
To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England…though not as a captive aboard a pirate’s ship. Pirate captain Nathaniel Kent’s strategy for exacting revenge on his coldhearted fa...
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A young man forced to sell his body for money. A young lady who watched him do it. Two tormented souls brought together years later to assuage the hunger of a desperate, irresistible attraction.…With lush sensuality and unerring insight, Sylvi...
Based on the family from the bestselling Love in a Nutshell, the story of an heiress longing to marry for love or not at all...From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, comes the story of a young woman's searc...
It was whispered all through London Society that Ian Mackenzie was mad, that he’d spent his youth in an asylum, and was not to be trusted-especially with a lady. Yet Beth found herself inexorably drawn to the Scottish lord. Despite his decaden...