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Title: Mail-Order Bride: Taking the Train West for Love

Author: Bethany Grace

Narrator: Noah Varness

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-14

Publisher: Quietly Loved and Blessed Press

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This 10,400-word novelette contains powerful Christian influences, love, family, and other related themes meant to make you smile!

Mail Order Bride: Taking the Train West for Love is a beautiful story about a woman who, after two years of corresponding with a man out west, accepts his invitation of marriage and sets out on her journey. On the train she meets a stranger and enjoys their frequent chats and stories from the bible. One night, everything is literally turned upside down as the train comes to a violent screeching halt and they both find each other in the darkness, then jump from the train with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, but with the woman clutching her bible firmly in hand. What happens after that is a test of the will to survive, for both their physical bodies and their spirits.

Members Reviews:

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This was a very Christian story. For the right person I'm sure they would enjoy it, but it was not to my taste of a MOB story.

Book Review

Enjoyed reading a good clean romance. The stories are fun and just long enough to read in a small amount of time.

Dumb sad book

No happy ending here! I don't read so I can be sad! Should be considered a devotional instead of romance!

God Still Car's!

This story had me until Abigail became ill and knew it was going to end sadly! I'm not into sad stories.

Excellent story that moves

Details hard decisions needed to change life. Excellent story that moves.

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Title: Silver Tears

Author: Becky Lee Weyrich

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When her mother is condemned as a witch and sent to the gallows, Alice Wiggins flees her English homeland to escape the same fate. In the colony of Maine, an inheritance awaits her - as does Christopher Gunn, an arrogant stranger who ignites a restless sensuality deep inside the young beauty. In the splendor of the Northeast woods, headstrong Alice is brought to blissful surrender by a desire too powerful to resist. But as she fears that Christophers heart isnt hers alone, shell challenge the violence of war, the hazards of nature, and even death for his love.

Critic Reviews:

Weyrich writes a sensuous love story!Affaire de Coeur

Members Reviews:

My favorite so far by this author

After Alice's mother is accused and hanged as a witch, Alice herself is in jeopardy. Until a friend of the family rescues her by marrying her. Being a great deal older then her their marriage is in name only. Even still they have a happy marriage. But when he dies five years later his protection to her comes to an end. If she doesn't leave for the new world of America she will probably suffer the same fate as her mother. Her husband planned for her to marry Christopher Gunn, a man she does remember from the past. But the man she meets doesn't resemble the man she remembers from her past. Will she choose him anyway or will she look to Jonathan Hargrave, another man who is interested. Not to mention that if she doesn't marry Christopher, Ishani would gladly take her place. This historical romance unfolds over the events surrounding war with the Indians as well as the Salem Witch trials. A historical romance full of both history and romance. I quite enjoyed reading the journey that both Christopher Gunn and Alice Hargrove experienced over the course of the book.

Content needs editing - not proofreading

While it was refreshing to read a book that wasn't full of errors, this book was just too long. I think editing out about 200 pages would help. The female protagonist was absolutely irritating, and stayed that way. I commend the author for her effort, but based on this book, I wouldn't suffer through another story like this one.

Unremarkable

This could have been a four star book for me had it not been for the lengthy descriptions. I'm one that enjoys good descriptors that take the reader into the story, but this was too much, even for me. I thought the h was too whiny and couldn't ever make up her mind. Too many times she changed her mind about something for no reason. I don't know how the husband could stand it.

The other thing that didn't do much for me was that there were so many things going on with her. **POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT** It felt like the author had to get as much in as she could. The part about the h living with the Natives was too over the top. And then the part about her involvement in the witch trials felt like a last minute addition just to get more to happen to her.

Three Stars

Good story, but it didnt need all the intimate details between the main characters.

Five Stars

A great feel good story. I love the history.

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Title: A Perfect Stranger

Subtitle: Titanic, Book 1

Author: Alice Duncan

Narrator: Lisa Baarns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-14

Publisher: Alice Duncan

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In his arms.

The Castle Walk, the Peabody, and the Lambeth Stroll - dancer Isabel Golightly could do them all and never miss a step. She's the toast of the Titanic, and the center of attention in its most elegant ballroom. The swells don't have to know that she and her little daughter aren't traveling in first class, and Isabel doesn't care. Nothing can go wrong - they're on their way to a new life in America! Then, amid the terrifying chaos before the great ship goes down, a gentleman - a perfect stranger - puts them into the last lifeboat. They owe their lives to him - but she'll never know his name...

In his heart.

Rescued by a quirk of fate, Somerset FitzRoy remembers little about his ordeal in the icy water. But he cannot forget the frightened child who begged him for help that night - and her mother's beautiful face haunts his dreams. Days later, he is overjoyed to find Isabel and Eunice among the survivors in New York. Will she remember him? She must - because their love was meant to be.

Members Reviews:

Really fun reading!

I loved the characters and the storyline. If the outcome was a bit predictable, good! Easy reading.

The Titanic Series was great reading

I enjoyed all the Titanic Series, whished there were more to read. They are exciting in a relaxed way. I had troble putting them down. Enjoy yourself and have a travel to a different day and time.

It sunk

Was not what I expected got bored. Did not finish this book. This book did not leave port poor choice

I did not enjoy it.

It had almost nothing to do with the Titanic other than them meeting on the ship.I would have enjoyed it more if they talked more about the sinking of the ship as they met.

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Title: Mail Order Bride

Subtitle: Fixing Her Cowboy's Broken Heart

Author: Victoria Otto

Narrator: Nancy Isaacs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-14

Publisher: Illuminated Aura Press

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Mail Order Bride: Fixing Her Cowboys Broken Heart is a wonderful Christian western romance story about love. It takes place in the mid-1800s on a large ranch in Colorado, owned by a bitter man. Roger lost his wife and children unexpectedly several years before and cant seem to get over his depression. He blames God for his loss and has developed an impenetrable wall around his heart. He owns and maintains a ranch by himself and feels that it is time to move on and find someone to grow old with. He places an advertisement seeking a good Christian bride. Lucy, beautiful and loving, feels led by God to respond to the cowboys ad in hopes of bringing joy and love to this troubled mans heart.

Members Reviews:

Bible passages with a hint of a story

Would you try another book from Victoria Otto and/or Nancy Isaacs?

no - as this book was way to religious for my liking.

What do you think your next listen will be?

not sure

How did the narrator detract from the book?

she did ok

What character would you cut from Mail Order Bride?

The first wife and 2 daughters...

Any additional comments?

This book was not to my liking it was too religious for my taste. It seemed to be mostly Bible/scripture readings and very little actual story. In fact the 2 main characters do not meet until close to the end of the book. The 'romance' part is very far fetched, they meet, marry that same day, he is rude to her and then all of a sudden that night they discover they love each other... the end. Very abrupt end. I would have liked more story between the 2 of them, and show how they actually get to like each other and discover they do love each other and want to start a new life.

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Title: The Scarlet Thread

Author: Becky Lee Weyrich

Narrator: Emma Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the city of New Orleans, Desiree La Fleur, a dark-haired Creole beauty, arrived with the purpose to celebrate her "Sisters of Sin", the fallen women whose lives began and ended on a street known as The Scarlet Thread. But deep inside Desiree, hiding just beneath the veil of purity, is a forbidden desire for a man who doesnt want a wife. Armed with unwavering determination and proud innocence, Desiree will soon find herself in a world as enticing at it is dangerous.

Members Reviews:

The âred lanternâ district of New Orleans in the Victorian Eraâ oh my!

Having read and loved Tainted Lillies, I was anxious to read another by Weyrich.

This is the story of Desiree La Fleur. It begins in 1885 when she is seven and her mulatto nurse flees Desireeâs drunken father with Desiree and her infant sister, Innocente. In the swamps they become separated and Desiree is recaptured by her fatherâs men. We donât learn much of her youth after that except she is taken home and though she has a stepmother who has no love for her, Desiree is educated in the East. In 1899, when she is 21, she decides to take the money she gained from a writing contest and join her best friend, Nanine, in New Orleans.

As soon as she gets off the train, Desiree is mistaken for a woman named âGarnetâ who, she later learns, is a prostitute living in âStoryville,â the red lantern district of New Orleans. Itâs âthe scarlet threadâ on Basin Street. Right then I realized, even if Desiree did not, that sheâd found her long lost sister.

Meanwhile Nanine plots to match Desiree with Dr. Roman St. Vincent, dubbed âthe saint of Storyvilleâ for the help he gives to the young prostitutes. And the prostitute named Garnet is in love with him. Two sisters both in love with the same man. Because of their beginnings, one is ostensibly good and the other a fallen woman, raised to believe she is a woman of color when she is not.

Neither Desiree nor Roman want marriage but decide, at their early encounter, to pretend they are engaged to appease Nanine and her husband in whose home Desiree lives.

Weyrich writes well and tells a good story so, of course, I was sucked in from the start. There were lots of improbable twists and turns but once I got over that, I had to find out if this smart girl was really going to be so dumb as to do some of the things she did. And what of Garnet who really loves Roman but who he thinks of as a young sister? And then there is this âripperâ guy who goes around killing prostitutes. Ah, yes, lots to think about. And did I mention itâs a bodice ripper?

The Scarlet Thread

Enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to those who like reading an entertaining, action pack story with a good plot, intrigue, humor and a little spice.

Three Stars

enjoyed the book it was a easy entertaining read

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Title: Denim and Lace

Author: Patricia Rice

Narrator: Paula Hoffman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

RITA Finalist, bestselling author of the Magic series.

Samantha Neely thought she might have to kill Sloan Talbott. Talbott had already tried to run her and her family out of town, and now she finally had her chance to confront the man she believed responsible for her father's disappearance. To do so, she had to prove she was woman enough to bring down the handsomest, most sinfully dangerous man she'd ever met.

Sloan Talbott called Sam a ragtag redheaded tomboy, but her honeyed voice taunted him. In denims, she made him crazy. In lace, she made him wild. Concealing his own private demons, Sloan didn't need a woman like Sam revealing what kind of man he really was. He couldn't let himself love her, but he couldn't stop wanting her. Instead, he offered her a proposition she ought to refuse

Members Reviews:

Denim and Lace

The Tennessee Neely family traveled West under great obstacles. Samantha "Sam" protected her family since they were in search of her father, Emmanuel. Sloan Talbott's life was saved by Samantha on several occasions but he did not want women on his mountain and voiced it often. Life took some twists and turns that made Sloan admit who he really was and how he felt about Samantha. Great love story.

LOVED IT!!!

Wonderful, memorable characters. Strong, intelligent, independent heroine and maddening, alpha male hero. Held my interest. Wil be looking for more of this author's books!

Five Stars

My all time favorite!!!!!

Rollicking Good Fun

Emmanuel Neely is a free-spirited inventor who has a strong sense of wanderlust. In his absence, the eldest daughter Samantha has always taken care of her mother and her twin sisters. The family has left their war-decimated Tennessee for California; Emmanuel has written to tell them of their new home in the Sierra Mountains.

However, when they arrive in the town of Talbott, they meet the awful owner of the town (and everything in it) -- Sloan Talbott. He has one ironclad rule -- absolutely no women. The Neely's are not particularly impressed with no. They decide they must stay in Talbott until Emmanuel comes back.

Samantha dresses in trousers and shoots better than most men. It doesn't take long for Sam and Sloan lock horns. I don't really want to tell too much more about the story; it is fun and funny (Sloan and Samantha are evenly matched). The reason this book did not receive a 5-star rating had to do with the ending. During the last few chapters, a major character is injured and the author used a device that seemed fairly pointless. I thought it really damaged the overall quality of the novel. Overall, the story is a delight.

Lust Was the Only Thing They had in Common

This was one of the most unusual frontier novels that I have ever read. I really enjoyed it because I just didn't know what to expect next.

Sloan Talbott was the king of his mountain and the absolute ruler of his town until a red-headed tomboy named Sam and her mother and sisters moved into his private domain. He couldn't drive them away, so he tried other means of ridding his town of these independent females.

The only thing he and Sam have in common is lust for each other, until things take an unusual turn of events.

Good story. Well done.

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Title: The Amazing Interlude

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator: Laurie Klein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Winter 1914. Sara Lee Kennedy reads the newspaper account of the war in Europe and is appalled. Others in her sheltered Pennsylvania home are interested only in her coming marriage to solid, self-centered, Harvey. Struggling with compassion, Sara Lee feels compelled to help the suffering Belgian Army whose country is overrun by Germans. She defies her parents and travels alone to the front lines to help anyway she can. It is there she meets Henri, a Belgian officer. Eventually Sara is forced to choose between two admirers, Harvey and Henri.

Members Reviews:

Very good, very touching

There must have been a lot of dust around when I read this, because I got a lump in my throat about three paragraphs in and it stayed there the whole way through. This novel is a superb evocation of small-town America on the eve of the Great War, and of our naive but determined heroine's adventures running a soup kitchen for soldiers just behind the front lines. Rinehart's prose is perfect, and although the heroine is perhaps a bit too good, Belgian officer Henri and her fiance back home, Harvey, are well-drawn and very much alive.

World War I Love Story

This story dates itself in regard to the relations between men and women and their roles. You can tell it was written early in the 20th century and for a female audience. Although the main character,a woman, does break out of her traditional role, she is still very much the "type" who would stay at home and do as she was told. Her personality seems rather submissive while her actions are those of a much more liberated spirit. In this respect, the story doesn't quite ring true and is more of a wish fulfillment fantasy. The western front of WWI is merely a setting for this unlikely romance to play out. Far more interesting than the relationship part of the book are the accounts of what it was like on the front during World War I and the activities of soldiers, citizenry and the men who performed espionage operations. Apparently, the author, Mary Roberts Rinehart, was a war correspondent on the Belgian front during World War I, so this provides the only notes of verisimilitude in the story. So she certainly did know what it was like to be a woman doing a job in a place were women were usually not likely to be. Worth reading for that alone.

Love this author

Love this author. I'm trying to read all of her books in the order they were written. Thanks for offering free downloads of her books.

Loved this book!!

I've got so many books on my kindle that sometimes I forget to read the older stuff. I am very happy that I happened upon this book. I think I've read Mary Roberts Rinehart before and picked up several of her books at once. This story really affected me. I loved Sara Lee and her determination to help even though it wasn't "her fight". She was very strong although as often as possible she was depicted as passive. But when she finally allowed herself to think for herself and not worry about other people's opinions, She matured into a lovely giving woman. I have often, in these days of war and worries, wished I could do something to help like she did. She was selfless and willing to go all out to help the Belgian people. I wish I were as Brave as she was and not as cynical and self-defeating as I am. She is an inspiration even in these modern times.

More than a charming story of love in war time

More than a charming story of love in war time.

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Title: Lady with the Devil's Scar

Author: Sophia James

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Badly disfigured Lady Isobel Dalceann has fought fiercely to defend her keep, with little thought for her safety. Why, then, has she let a stranger within her walls? Whilst he threatens danger, his battered body marked by war mirrors her own scars and tempts her to put her faith in him.

Marc de Courtenay is a mercenary and a loner, although he is drawn to damaged, beautiful Isobel. But in taking him into her highly defended buttressed walls she has unwittingly given him secrets that will enable him to betray her. What would she do if she were ever to find out who he really is...?

Members Reviews:

Good medieval romance set in Scotland

This book was quite all right. The beginning is very exciting, with a thrilling and dramatic rescue at sea. The first half of the book is very entertaining but the second half not so much. The characters are very good though. Nevertheless, I felt that there were some loose ends and not all aspects of the character's pasts are well developed, for example the hero's dead wife and the circumstances of her death and the way it impacted on the hero's character.

Notwithstanding, I wold recommend this scottish medieval romance since I enjoyed reading it.

This one is certainly a keeper

Lady with the Devil's Scar (Harlequin Historical)

This is the story of two main characters who both bear scars, one more obvious. In a gripping suspence story set in Medieval times they have to overcome almost impossible odds.But the reward is worth the journey you would want to share with these extraordinary people.

Four Stars

I enjoy her stories nonsensical, easy reading

It begins with a rescue from the sea.

Isobel and Marc are distrustful strangers; though they are enemies sworn to protect each other. Will M betray and lead an army against I and her clan, or will he save her? This story is quite an adventure!

A nice story

I really like Sophia James but this was one of her weaker stories. It was a fun read but not up to some of her other stories.

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Title: Outrageous Confessions of Lady Deborah

Author: Marguerite Kaye

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Just who is Lady Deborah?

I am the Dowager Countess of Kinsail, and I have enough secrets to scandalize you for life.

I will never reveal the truth of my soul-destroying marriage--some things are too dark to be told. But at least no one can guess that I, a famously icy-hearted widow, am also the authoress of the shamelessly voluptuous romances currently shocking the ton!

Only now I have a new secret identity, one that I will risk my life to keep - accomplice to Elliot Marchmont, gentleman, ex-soldier and notorious London thief. This adventurer's expert touch ignites in me a passion so intoxicating that surviving our blistering affair unscathed will be near impossible

Members Reviews:

Another beguiling historical romance by Marguerite Kaye!

A sensuous delight that is sure to enchant readers of Regency romances everywhere, Outrageous Confessions of Lady Deborah is a captivating tale of old secrets, burgeoning passion and everlasting love I found absolutely impossible to put down.

Lady Deborah Napier, Dowager Countess of Kinsail, has spent most of her life keeping secrets. She's never told a soul the truth about her respectable marriage to her late husband and keeps under wraps her identity as a writer of scandalously erotic tales. The shocking adventures of her brazen heroine might be daring and outrageous, but Lady Deborah's life is sedate and dull. She yearns for a life of peril and passion, however, she has long resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone and desperately yearning for somebody to love her. But one night when Deborah is anxiously looking for something to distract her from her relatives' tedious company, she stumbles upon a dashing thief who looks set to turn her entire life upside down!

Elliot Marchmont is a man with a mission. The former soldier wants to wreak revenge upon the men who had callously ignored the plight of some of his comrades who had either lost their lives on the frontline or are unable to look after themselves now that they have returned from war. Elliot is determined to make these heartless monsters pay for their lack of concern for the welfare of these former soldiers and by breaking into their houses, he can get his hands on priceless works of art that could make a world of difference to the broken men whom Elliot is determined to help back on their feet. Major Marchmont knows that he cannot afford to make mistakes - or to arouse anybody's suspicion. But it looks like his secret is out of the bag when he is caught climbing out a window by Lady Deborah who assures him that she will not breathe a word about his secret identity- but only if he lets her tag along on his next adventure!

Elliot reluctantly finds himself accepting Lady Deborah's shocking proposition.

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Title: Indian Affairs

Author: Parris Afton Bonds

Narrator: Steven Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-14

Publisher: Parris Afton, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Washington socialite Alessandra O'Quinn and her lover, Indian shaman Manuel Mondragon, defy time and space and politics and families to come together in the sweeping canvas of the 1920's New Mexico outpost of Taos. But can they defy Destiny to stay together?

This tempo molto largo historical follows Alessandra O'Quinn, who has been exiled to Taos to either recover from tuberculosis or die. Manuel Mandragon, battles for her health and her love. She in turn battles the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the Taos Indians' right to their sacred Blue Lake - and battles her father and her husband and brother for her right to autonomy.

Members Reviews:

Performance can kill a good book.

What would have made Indian Affairs better?

A different narrator is badly needed. This sounds like a text book being read.

Would you recommend Indian Affairs to your friends? Why or why not?

I would recommend the book to some of my friends but not the audio book.

Would you be willing to try another one of Steven Coopers performances?

No

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I chose this book because of the Native American side. I liked the informaiton about the culture differences.

Any additional comments?

This book is mediocre. I don't regret listening to it but the performance was atrocious.