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The Cost of the Forbidden & The Queen's New Year Secret

By: Carol Marinelli, Maisey Yates
Narrated by: Justine Eyre, Johanna Parker
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Summary

The price of endless pleasure!

Clients, women, money...ruthless CEO Sev Derzhavin is a master at getting whatever - and whomever! - he wants. Rejected as a child, Sev has never been refused since. 

So when his personal assistant resigns, Sev can't resist the challenge of enticing the beautiful brunette to stay....Naomi Johnson has to walk away before she gives in to the chemistry with her infamous heartbreaker boss and opens her heart to yet more bruises. But on their last business trip to Dubai, Sev makes a shocking suggestion to relieve the tension between them: enjoy some overtime - in his bed! 

Kidnapped by her king!

As the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve, the fairy tale is over for all of Petras when Queen Tabitha - refusing to live in a loveless marriage - asks her husband for a divorce. But anger erupts into passion, and when Tabitha flees the palace she's carrying King Kairos's heir! Discovering her secret, Kairos kidnaps his wife. Against the backdrop of his secluded island paradise, he proves there's no escaping his royal reach. He will use the desire that's gone unsated between them for too long to ensure his wife returns to his side. 

©2016 Harlequin Books S.A. (P)2016 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited.

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Stories okay but narrator in first was awful

I thought the stories were fine but the narrator in the first was awful. She was trying to put emotion into her performance but it caused her to have a voice with an underlying burr to it which is very annoying. I am hearing impared so this doesn't give clarity to the performance.
I'll be looking out for her narrations in the future, but to avoid.

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Great

The first story is simply amazing, I love this series and Sev's one is no different, and of course the narration is impeccable
The second story: the begining is problematic as the reader doesn't have any way of knowing who is the cold one in the relationship and who is supposed to be angry at who. I didn't like it, even though I liked the narration the rest was not to my liking

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