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Fleeing a proposal and in search of a fortune, one headstrong young lady moves to London to play the high-stakes game of love. Catheryn Westering has no intention of marrying her respectable but boring cousin, Edmund Caston, and her aunt and uncle have no intention of giving her access to her newly discovered fortune. Daringly, she rushes to London to appeal to her distant, very attractive kinsman, the Earl of Dambroke, for help.

Before Dambroke knows it, she's become an essential part of his household: an eager participant in the London social whirl; a protege of his mother; a confidante to his spoilt sister and his mischievous younger brother; and a thorn in the masterful Earl's side. But London is a dangerous place, and although Dambroke frequently objects to Catheryn's "interference" in his family and social affairs, is it possible that, beneath his exasperation, much warmer feelings for Catheryn have already ignited?

©1981 Lynne Scott-Drennan (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance England
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The narrator's constant and irritating mispronounciation spoilt this book for me. The story is reminiscent of Georgette Heyer but without the wit and humour.

Traditional Regency

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I can only assume these recordings are made in Canada or USA, as the reader has no idea of how to pronounce normal ENGLISH WORDS. So story can be rather irritating

Yes but No

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listened to end as it had it's good bits but shocked that story has heroine marrying a violent man who says to her when you marry me I can beat you as much as I want and he really induces fear in her a couple of times..very disturbing message to give to female readers

heroine falls in love with violent man

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If you hire somebody to read an audiobook set in England, you should at least make sure they have some idea of how to pronounce English proper nouns!

I would have left this at a single-star review, solely for the performance, if it were up to me, but overall is required, so I gave that 3, to be charitable to the author. I cannot, however, tell you whether the story itself is any good: I couldn't get far enough to find out, because the narrator was making me wish I could throw my phone at the wall within the first 3 minutes.

Here's a tip: the first syllable of Berkshire should rhyme with "dark". Not "irk".

Cringing within the first few minutes.

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This book is a far cry from Georgette Heyerdahl. It is poorly constructed and the delivery is stilted and monosyllabic. A disappointing experience

Disappointing

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