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The Wicked Wyckerly

By: Patricia Rice
Narrated by: Eliza Jane Cornell
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NYT and USA Today best-selling author! Nominated for the prestigious romance Rita award!

John Fitzhugh Wyckerly has been the spare heir all his life, supporting himself with gambling and charm. The news that he's inherited the bankrupt title of earl of Danecroft shatters his indolent world. Even penniless, he's always paid his debts, but now the estate's creditors are closing in. He can fake his death and run for cover or accept overwhelming responsibility and find a rich wife - one who will also accept his illegitimate terror of a daughter.

On his way to find an heiress, he meets Abigail Merriweather, who is neither rich nor aristocratic, but she can tame The Terror and stomp cockroaches. Unfortunately she needs a wealthy, powerful man who will fight her father's executor and retrieve her four half siblings. When an unexpected inheritance falls into Abby's lap, she sets out for London to seek a lawyer.

Can Fitz charm his practical Abby into trusting him to save her siblings when it's doubtful that he can even save himself? And can Abby surrender reason and logic for the folly of love offered by a man who can have any woman he wants but insists he wants only her?

©2010 Patricia Rice (P)2015 Audible, Inc. Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance

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Critic reviews

"Rice is a master storyteller. A wonderful blend of humor, pathos, adventure, and charm, this page-turner is book one in Rice's promising Rebellious Sons series." (Shelley Mosley, Booklist)
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thank you for this book I enjoyed listening, strong women Abbey made you laugh at times.
looking forward to listening to the next book.

what a pleasure.

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Bits of USA, upper class then rural. And too many mispronounced words. I gave up.

Narrator's accents wander all over

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I enjoyed the story but the narration really is patchy. I did just end up laughing at it. Quite a few glaring americanisms for a story set in regency England but they were fairly easy to ignore or laugh off too. Maybe not for you if you wouldn’t be able to though

Fun story. Dubious narration

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Could only speak English, constant mis-pronouncements, country girl with Irish accent. The story would have been 5 star with another narrator

If the narrator

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Original and unexpected story! This story has so many things going on it that it's sometimes difficult to keep up, but well worth the effort! The only problem was that the narrator kept going into an Irish accent when trying to do an English Oxfordshire rural one, but will read more of this author

Very good story

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