Martha KeyesTheir choice? Scandal or mutual salvation.
Determined to support her mother and sisters after her father's untimely death, Charlotte Mandeville covertly crafts satirical caricatures of high society. It not only puts money in her family’s bare pockets but ensures the haut-ton cannot guard all the power and the secrets. Anthony Yorke has a guilty conscience and a brother to exonerate. When the key piece of evidence to clear his brother's name falls into the hands of a headstrong young woman, he is willing to do whatever is required to obtain it from her. But Charlotte is not easily persuaded, and while the thing she demands in return for the evidence is reasonable enough, it leads to the unthinkable: a forced engagement between them.
Can the ruse they must craft and maintain survive their mutual dislike, or will it crumble, bringing them and their families along with it?
Reputation at Risk is the first in a new series of Regency romances, full of banter, a touch of suspense, and all the swoon without the steam.
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Reputation at Risk by Martha Keyes, A Chronicle of Misadventures 1, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2024-05-15 | Their choice? Scandal or mutual salvation.
Determined to support her mother and sisters after her father's untimely death, Charlotte Mandeville covertly crafts satirical caricatures of high society. It not only puts money in her family’s bare pockets but ensures the haut-ton cannot guard all the power and the secrets. Anthony Yorke has a guilty conscience and a brother to exonerate. When the key piece of evidence to clear his brother's name falls into the hands of a headstrong young woman, he is willing to do whatever is required to obtain it from her. But Charlotte is not easily persuaded, and while the thing she demands in return for the evidence is reasonable enough, it leads to the unthinkable: a forced engagement between them.
Can the ruse they must craft and maintain survive their mutual dislike, or will it crumble, bringing them and their families along with it?
Reputation at Risk is the first in a new series of Regency romances, full of banter, a touch of suspense, and all the swoon without the steam.
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#historicalromance #regencyromance #cleanromanceSelling Out by Martha Keyes, Sheppards in Love 3, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2024-02-11 | The only thing more daunting than singing in front of sold-out crowds across Europe? Facing the music when you start falling for the guy in the spotlight.
AUSTIN After years of working my tail off in the music industry, I’ve finally made it: headlining my own tour across Europe. Sure, it’d be great to sing my own songs instead of the stuff my label gives me, but success requires compromise.
It also requires a stellar tour team, which is why I know I have to have Mia Sawyer as one of my backup vocalists when I hear her sing. With thousands of women screaming my name on stage every night, it shouldn’t bother me that she doesn’t seem to think much of me. I don’t have time for real relationships anyway.
MIA Austin Sheppard is the exact type of man and “musician” I roll my eyes at. But since my own following on social media is stagnant enough that it’s bound to start attracting mosquitoes soon, I figure this may be the only opportunity I have to get paid to sing—and to see Europe, for that matter. For an opportunity like that? I can keep my opinions to myself.
Life on tour with Austin gives me a front-row seat to everything I wish I could have as a musician. It also puts me constantly and perilously close to the man I’ve pegged as a womanizer and a sell-out. So close, in fact, that I’m starting to worry the next sell-out will be my heart.
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #romcom #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceSolo for the Season by Martha Keyes, Gift-Wrapped Romance, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-11-16 | Cabin fever can spark unexpected flames
MAGGIE
After being dumped last Christmas, I’m taking extreme measures to ensure nothing and no one ruins my happy holidays this time around. I’ll be safely wrapped in a cocoon of kitschy Christmas decor, complete with surrounding winter wonderland at the ultimate holiday mountain cabin. So what if the countless elf figurines make me a little uneasy or if there are a couple hiccups with cabin maintenance?
There’s a bigger problem: the assistant manager happens to be one of (many) teasing classmates from my childhood and my former crush. He keeps showing up to my cabin to fix things. I’m more worried about what he might break….
WES
Here at Crystal Peaks Resort, I’ve got everything I need: tall trees, fresh air, and no cell phone service. This is my happy place, and if I prove to my boss I can handle the job, the management position here will be mine. Everything is falling into place.
Until the newest guest arrives. The quirky cabin she’s in is the bane of my existence, causing issue after issue. But the more I’m there, the more I realize the real obstacle between me and my future plans: proving to my boss I can keep a professional relationship with the guests. Or one guest in particular.
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #romanticcomedy #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromance #romcomaudiobook #christmasromance #holidayromance #closeddooromcomA Suitable Arrangement by Martha Keyes, Castles & Courtship, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-10-21 | The arrangement may well be suitable, but is it bearable?
As the new Earl of Lismore, it is Sandy Duncan’s duty to save both his family and Lochlarren Castle from impending ruin. He has always known he must marry well, but his father’s deathbed revelation of a slew of other debts creates an unexpected urgency to the situation. With his last breath, Sandy’s father extracts a promise from him to accept the match he has arranged: a marriage to the daughter of a low-born but wealthy English merchant.
While Juliana Godfrey has never had the recognition of Society’s most elite, she has been able to take comfort in what she does have: money—and she has that in spades. Her father’s newest ambition to marry her into the aristocracy, however, could provide her with both things. The fact that the Duncans are Scots—and Highland ones, at that—is not ideal, but an earldom simply cannot be refused.
Despite being the face of the Duncan family’s salvation, Juliana’s reception at Lochlarren Castle is less than warm. As for the earl, he is bewildered to find his prospective bride arrogant and condescending, evidently expecting her future family to be barbaric. In spite of such shaky foundations, however, the match must proceed, bleak as the future may be to both participants. Will first impressions stand against the intimacy marriage brings, or are money and title all Sandy and Juliana can truly hope for from their union?
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#historicalromance #regencyromance #cleanromanceHost for the Holidays by Martha Keyes, Christmas Escape Series, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-09-14 | Madi is counting on Paris’s reputation as the City of Love. Now she just needs to figure out if it’s old love or new love...
Madi
After two years and zero proposals, my relationship could use a little spark. Paris during the holidays seems like just the ticket—one perfect, final opportunity for my boyfriend to take things to the next level.
The fact that he’s rented me the tiny servant quarters in the apartment of a very good-looking Frenchman is . . . puzzling. And when he asks that Frenchman to take me around the city while he’s busy at work trainings? Color me confused.
Is this some sort of pre-engagement test? If so, I’m not sure I’m doing too hot.
Rémy
Offering to host my friend’s vacation rental means making sure the first review is five solid, sparkling stars. When the guest who shows up is a beautiful American woman, I’m thinking my task might be more enjoyable than I thought. Until I find out she has a boyfriend. Madi deserves to have an amazing time in Paris, though, so I’m more than happy to oblige when the guy asks me to show her the city.
It’s cool. I’m cool. This is all for that five-star review…
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #romanticcomedy #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromance #romcomaudiobookJust Friends Forever by Martha Keyes, Sheppards in Love 2, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-09-07 | The lines around the friend zone are blurrier than ever
Stephanie “Stevie” Jacobs
Marriage to an A-list actor has its perks, but no one ever tells you about the drawbacks—paparazzi infesting your life like cockroaches after the divorce, for one. So when my longtime friend Troy offers me the empty side of his duplex while I get back on my feet again, the only possible answer is, “How soon can I come?”
I’ve never seen Troy as anything but a friend, but when the gossip columns pin down my location, they’re determined to make more of things between us, despite my assurances he’s dating someone. The media are a tenacious bunch. Heck, they almost have me convinced, which is totally crazy. Right?
Troy Sheppard
My friendship with Stevie has survived a lot, including the day I caught the crazy bug and told her I wanted to be more than friends. Thankfully, that’s far behind us. I’m here for Stevie—as a friend—now that she needs a soft place to land away from the gossip-hungry tabloids.
There's just one problem: I may have seriously underestimated the power of the paparazzi—and possibly my feelings. Both seem bent on bringing the past into the present, but there's no way I'm going down the road to rejection a second time.
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #regencyromance #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceThe Highwaymans Letter by Martha Keyes, Sons of Somerset 5, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-08-27 | He waylays her carriage and runs off with her property. Can she keep him from stealing her heart as well?
By day, Reginald Sinclair works in the post office, but by night, he is the increasingly infamous Paladin, the gallant highwayman making young women swoon all over Somerset. With a vendetta against the wealthy that spans both past and present, Reggie's escapades allow him to take justice into his own hands while helping his uncle avoid insolvency.
Joanna Carmichael's father has finally chosen her a husband. While she is not thrilled with her father's selection, Joanna understands it as a business arrangement, something which suits her practicality perfectly. Her father hopes her good sense will exercise a beneficial effect upon her younger sister, Frances, who is regrettably prone to romantics. Frances's preoccupation with reports of the Paladin threaten to overshadow Joanna's coolheaded example, but Joanna is determined to show her sister how foolish and unworthy of admiration the outlaw is.
During their encounter, though, the maddening highwayman takes an item of Joanna's—then has the audacity to send her a letter with instructions on how to recover it, beginning a battle of wills that brings Reggie within reach of the people responsible for his family's ruin and forces Joanna to reconsider the desirability of her business arrangement.
Sons of Somerset: A Clean Regency Romance Series Can five working class men find love on the job?
This is the fifth book in the clean Regency romance Sons of Somserset series. Although this working class romance is a stand-alone novel, the books are best enjoyed when read in order.
Book 1: Carving for Miss Coventry by Deborah M. Hathaway Book 2: The Stable Master's Son by Mindy Burbidge Strunk Book 3: In Pursuit of the Painter by Ashtyn Newbold Book 4: An Agreeable Alliance by Kasey Stockton Book 5: The Highwayman's Letter by Martha Keyes
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#historicalromance #regencyromance #cleanromance #noble heroKissing for Keeps by Martha Keyes, Sheppards in Love 1, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-08-15 | History has a way of repeating itself.
Siena Coming on the heels of a big, fat failure at work, my best friend Madi's glamorous French wedding is the perfect opportunity to prove I can do some things well–even if it kills me, which is looking like a distinct possibility. Maid of honor duties are no joke. And while I could honestly use an extra hand or ten, I have to refuse the offer of help from Madi's flirt of a brother, Jack. Nothing would spoil the beautiful wedding festivities faster than her finding out about that thing that happened between Jack and me that one time . . .
Not that there's any danger of it happening again. It was so long ago, I've forgotten everything about it, down to the brand of his cologne. Aqua Di Gio is so utterly predictable.
Jack I admit, I haven't been the best brother to Madi. Okay, slight understatement–a history of dating her friends and ruining those friendships has landed me squarely in her black books.
But my offer to help Siena isn't some underhanded scheme to hurt Madi a third time. I genuinely want to be a better brother. As for teasing Siena in the meantime? That's just standard procedure for me.
Because everything is totally normal here. Nothing to see, folks.
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #regencyromance #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceThe Road through Rushbury by Martha Keyes, Seasons of Change 1, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-07-21 | Get the ebook, audio, and paperback versions at books2read.com/u/mgjeRK Join my newsletter for behind-the-scenes information and research tidbits I think you'll find fascinating at subscribepage.com/o6t0w2
All she needs is a little bit of change. She'll have to fight him for it.
Georgiana Paige is on the shelf after eight full Seasons in London and not a single offer of marriage. When the opportunity to act as companion to her spinster aunt presents itself, she jumps at the chance to escape the Marriage Mart and embark on a new adventure. Upon her eventful arrival in the tiny Yorkshire village, though, she finds herself confronted with a man who both piques her interest and provokes her pride.
A lowly country vicar, Samuel Derrick would do anything to keep his coarse but idyllic parish the way it is. When change arrives there in the form of multiple new tenants straight from London, he vows to fight against their meddling. He is unprepared, though, for Georgiana Paige and the way she forces herself into the inner workings of the parish. His past experience tells him to keep the woman at arm's length, but his heart—and her determination to stay involved—won't allow for it.
As the village fights against the industrialization and poverty sweeping the North, Samuel and Georgiana find themselves working to pull the village together, even as those around them seemed determined to pull it apart. But how can two people who have lived such disparate lives bring anything together when they are fighting against their own desires for change and love?
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #regencyromance #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #historicalromance #noblehero #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceGoodwill for the Gentleman by Martha Keyes, Belles of Christmas 2, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-07-07 | Get the ebook, audio, and paperback versions at books2read.com/u/3Lyqx0 Join my newsletter for behind-the-scenes information and research tidbits I think you'll find fascinating at subscribepage.com/o6t0w2
He jilted her sister. She will never forgive him for it. Can her anger survive a snowing in and a Christmas truce?
Emma Caldwell doesn’t hate anyone—except for Hugh Warrilow, the man who jilted her older sister and left like a coward to join the army. Men are clearly not to be trusted, and Emma is determined not to give her heart to one. No, a marriage of convenience is the very thing to suit her.
Hugh Warrilow has been secretly in love with Emma Caldwell for years, so when the time comes to live up to both families’ expectations and marry her sister, he can’t find it in himself to do it. Disgraced and misunderstood, he joins to fight Napoleon on the Continent, hoping he will forget Emma and be forgotten by everyone he has disappointed.
An injury brings Hugh home—just in time for Christmas and the snowstorm that leaves him trapped under the same roof as Emma. How will he explain that his unforgivable act was motivated by how desperately he loved her? Her icy reception doesn’t leave him the chance, nor does it offer much hope for the season’s expectation of peace on earth and goodwill to men.
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #regencyromance #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #sallybritton #historicalromance #noblehero #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceA Matchmaking Mismatch by Martha Keyes, Romance Retold 3, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-07-03 | This book was originally published under the title True of Heart. It is inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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Love lessons have never gone so awry
Miss Ruth Hawthorn helps support her fatherless family the only way she can: doling out love advice in a local newspaper column under an assumed name, The Swan. When she receives a lucrative request for an in-person consultation from someone signed "O," her brother persuades her to go to London with him, teaching him what he needs to know in order to survive the short appointment. But when "O" moves up the time of the rendez-vous and Ruth's brother is nowhere to be found, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.
Philip Trent, Lord Oxley, knows precisely which woman will best fill his late mother's shoes as the viscountess—now all he needs is a little help winning her over, swarmed as she is by suitors. Ashamed of his ineptitude with women but determined to succeed, Philip secretly enlists help. The youthful, bespectacled Swan seems like the last person capable of providing such help, but Philip finds in the young man both a friend and a confidant, with a surprising understanding of love.
Philip's choice of woman is proving more difficult than anticipated, though, and Ruth's ongoing disguise and frequent meetings with him are taxing her conscience—and her heart. With more secrets than Ruth can manage and a heart long since lost to her most important client, she faces the threat of discovery and ruin—a prospect somehow eclipsed by the heartbreak she will face when those secrets are inevitably discovered by the man she loves.
Table of Contents 00:00:00 Opening Credits 00:00:13 Chapter 1 00:20:47 Chapter 2 00:26:02 Chapter 3 00:46:30 Chapter 4 00:52:40 Chapter 5 01:07:04 Chapter 6 01:17:55 Chapter 7 01:41:26 Chapter 8 01:55:48 Chapter 9 02:13:02 Chapter 10 02:35:43 Chapter 11 02:50:08 Chapter 12 03:12:26 Chapter 13 03:33:38 Chapter 14 03:46:21 Chapter 15 04:03:33 Chapter 16 04:23:48 Chapter 17 04:40:42 Chapter 18 04:59:07 Chapter 19 05:04:54 Chapter 20 05:30:29 Chapter 21 05:42:34 Chapter 22 05:53:25 Chapter 23 06:11:33 Chapter 24 06:35:59 Chapter 25 06:46:35 Chapter 26 07:05:20 Chapter 27 07:31:00 Chapter 28 07:44:59 Chapter 29 08:02:21 Chapter 30 08:13:56 Chapter 31 08:23:34 Chapter 32 08:36:14 Chapter 33 08:51:01 Chapter 34 09:05:36 Chapter 35 09:22:52 Chapter 36 09:44:42 Chapter 37 10:18:37 Chapter 38 10:26:07 Chapter 39 10:40:04 Chapter 40 10:56:49 Chapter 41 11:11:43 Chapter 42 11:22:25 Chapter 43 11:36:55 Epilogue 11:50:29 Closing CreditsHazelhurst by Martha Keyes, Families of Dorset 4, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-06-27 | It started as a marriage of convenience, but falling in love has made it anything but convenient.
Fresh from the humiliating annulment of the love match she always wanted, Lady Anne Vincent meekly agrees to the marriage of convenience her father has arranged. She feels hopeful that this marriage can be one of cordial indifference, protecting her from the hurt she knows so well.
Tobias Cosgrove isn’t meant for marriage, free spirit that he is. And yet, as the only son, marry he must. He is thus relieved when his father reveals his future wife to be the calm, collected Lady Anne Vincent, for he is confident she won’t plague him with neediness or hysterics like so many of the other young women in society.
But when Lady Anne's past reappears on their doorstep, she and Tobias are forced to confront whether a marriage of convenience is the type of marriage they wish for after all.
00:00:00 Opening Credits 00:00:14 Chapter 1 00:25:56 Chapter 2 00:42:50 Chapter 3 00:53:07 Chapter 4 01:01:41 Chapter 5 01:19:14 Chapter 6 01:41:37 Chapter 7 02:32:22 Chapter 8 02:37:29 Chapter 9 02:54:24 Chapter 10 03:14:37 Chapter 11 03:36:42 Chapter 12 04:02:36 Chapter 13 04:22:35 Chapter 14 04:33:20 Chapter 15 04:56:16 Chapter 16 05:17:15 Chapter 17 05:29:47 Chapter 18 05:48:37 Chapter 19 06:05:08 Chapter 20 06:19:22 Chapter 21 06:53:16 Epilogue 07:00:58 Closing CreditsA Conspiratorial Courting by Martha Keyes, Romance Retold 2, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-06-26 | This book was originally published under the title My Wild Heart. It is loosely inspired by Beatrice and Benedick from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
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Can a ruse turn to romance?
No one stands in doubt of Edith Donne's opinion on marriage—or of her ability to ward it off using nothing but her stinging wit. With the fortune her aunt has left her, Edith has no reason to marry and certainly no intention of it. When she inadvertently overhears that her lifelong archrival is in love with her, she is stunned, but she has no compunction in setting him straight.
Elias Abram trusts no woman, but he can bandy words with the best of them—and Edith Donne is undoubtedly the best. Her razor-sharp tongue has been a constant companion and a welcome challenge since their prank-filled childhood days. But when Elias is given to believe that Edith is secretly in love with him, his world is flipped on its head, forcing him to reconsider everything he thought he knew.
Soon realizing they have been duped by their conspiring friends, Edith and Elias resolve to turn the tables on them in the most shocking manner they can concoct—the ultimate revenge. But what's to be done when the lines between charade and reality begin to blur?
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #regencyromance #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #historicalromance #noblehero #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceRedeeming Miss Marcotte by Martha Keyes, Romance Retold 1, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-06-21 | This book was originally published under the title A Foolish Heart. It is inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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She wants him back. He'll have anyone but her.
Mercy Marcotte doesn't deserve a second chance at love. At least, that's what she's believed since jilting Solomon Kennett, the man she loved, when his fortunes took a turn for the worse. But Solomon is back from the West Indies, rich, aloof, and about to offer for Mercy's best friend. Mercy resolves to stay out of it—until her friend runs off with another man. She can't stand by while Solomon is humiliated yet again.
Whatever the past, Solomon Kennett is taking control of the future. He is certain he will get what he wants now that he has proven himself worthy of consideration by even the most fastidious of fathers. When the woman he is supposed to propose to is kidnapped by another man, he feels honor-bound to go after them—only to be followed by Mercy, the woman who spurned him years ago. With end goals, loyalties, and history at odds for all involved, nothing is as it seems. The last thing anyone needs is a love potion to further entangle things. Skeptical in the highest degree and determined not to surrender control to his heart, Solomon finds himself wondering if there isn't perhaps something to the potion after all.
#audiobook #sweetromance #justkisses #regencyromance #romance #cleanandwholesome #cleanromance #freeaudiobook #marthakeyes #historicalromance #noblehero #fullaudiobook #englishlanguage #closeddoorromanceThe Christmas Foundling by Martha Keyes, Belles of Christmas: Frost Fair 5, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-06-11 | Get the ebook, audio, and paperback versions at books2read.com/u/b5XKw7 Join my newsletter for behind-the-scenes information and research tidbits I think you'll find fascinating at subscribepage.com/o6t0w2
A babe in a manger once saved the world. Can this one save a failing marriage?
Lydia Blakeburn, Baroness Lynham, wants nothing more than to present her husband with an heir, but after five years of marriage, she has all but given up on doing so. What started as a love match has since begun to sour, yet there is nothing Lydia can do to free Miles from a marriage she is certain he regrets. The future they had envisioned together is slipping farther and farther away.
Miles Blakeburn is at his wit's end. Not only has he failed to produce an heir to the family's ancient title, his wife has withdrawn from him entirely. The one thing in the world she wants, he has thus far been unable to give her: a child. He is a failure in every regard.
When they happen upon an abandoned baby at the Frost Fair, Miles simply can't resist the light he sees sparked in his wife's eyes as she holds the child. He agrees to take the foundling in until Christmastide is over, when they will find the babe a permanent home. But, for a couple who's been yearning for a baby for years, the infant can't help but expose all the feelings Lydia and Miles have long been trying to bury, feelings that have the power to bring them back together—or estrange them forever.
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2020 Whitney Award Winner
Scotland 1794
For more than twenty years, the Lowland village of Craigmuir has been untouched by smallpox, leaving the people vulnerable to a painful lesson on the price of belonging, belief, and survival.
Isla Findlay belongs nowhere. The daughter of a disgraced woman and the Highlander who abandoned them both, she tries to be a dutiful niece to the uncle who has taken her in, blending into the village as best she can. But when a young Highlander's arrival in the area coincides with an outbreak of dreaded smallpox, it stirs up questions about Isla's past and forces a confrontation between the beliefs she holds and the community she wants to belong to.
Dr. Graeme MacNeill killed the only patient he ever had: his own father. The only way he can think to atone is to cut all ties from the Lowland world his father hated—including his education as a physician—and embrace the Highland heritage he used to be ashamed of. He travels to Craigmuir to sell the unwanted estate he has inherited from an uncle and return home, but fate—and the red-headed young woman he encounters in the village—have no intention of letting him leave things so easily behind.
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She dreams of marrying a nobleman. Too bad he's only pretending to be one.
Cecilia Cosgrove’s beauty opens doors and hearts everywhere she goes. With a marquess courting her, the status and wealth her family is counting on her to obtain is finally within her reach—until she meets Jacques Levesque, the French nobleman who immediately pegs her as affected and superficial. While piqued and offended, Cecilia secretly begins to wonder whether he might not have a point.
Poor French émigré Jacques Levesque has been disguised as a French nobleman for almost as long as he can remember, trying his hardest to keep his head down in a society obsessed with rank and high birth. But when Cecilia Cosgrove comes into his life, he finds it hard to maintain his façade—or to want to.
While Cecilia struggles between the desire to please others and the wish to pursue her own course, Jacques's interest in her provokes a powerful enemy intent on taking him down. With love, acceptance, and the future on the line for them both, Cecilia and Jacques must decide whether a life lived behind a mask is any life at all.
00:00:00 Opening Credits 00:00:08 Chapter 1 00:09:26 Chapter 2 00:30:47 Chapter 3 00:44:57 Chapter 4 00:59:04 Chapter 5 01:10:35 Chapter 6 01:21:27 Chapter 7 01:29:43 Chapter 8 01:45:13 Chapter 9 01:57:27 Chapter 10 02:14:36 Chapter 11 02:34:51 Chapter 12 02:55:20 Chapter 13 03:11:31 Chapter 14 03:29:12 Chapter 15 03:45:28 Chapter 16 03:49:20 Chapter 17 04:03:30 Chapter 18 04:24:42 Chapter 19 04:43:19 Chapter 20 04:47:53 Chapter 21 05:04:58 Chapter 22 05:11:08 Chapter 23 05:25:33 Chapter 24 05:35:30 Epilogue 05:39:28 Closing CreditsIsabel by Martha Keyes, Families of Dorset 2, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-06-03 | Get the ebook, audio, and paperback versions at books2read.com/u/bzZkBD Join my newsletter for behind-the-scenes information and research tidbits I think you'll find fascinating at subscribepage.com/o6t0w2
When Isabel Cosgrove is informed by her father that he lost her hand in marriage while playing cards with Charles Galbraith—the gentleman she’s been admiring from a distance for years—she is filled with dismay. How can she agree to wed a man whose reason for marriage is part-revenge, part-indifference? Intent on avoiding a painful union where her regard cannot be returned, she concocts a plan.
Charles Galbraith didn’t intend to become engaged as a result of a drunken wager at cards, but after the woman he loves spurns him, what does it matter whom he marries? But even Miss Cosgrove, the fiancée he won by wager, seems intent not to marry him—a fact that both relieves and piques him. She instead suggests a plan that has the potential to temporarily appease her father’s demand of marriage while also winning back the love of the woman Charles truly wants.
But when Charles and Isabel are thrown into the midst of a brewing scandal and another man’s potential disinheritance, their plan begins to unravel thread by thread, challenging what Galbraith thinks he wants—and just how much more time with him Isabel’s heart can stand.
00:00:00 Opening Credits 00:00:13 Chapter 1 00:09:29 Chapter 2 00:22:46 Chapter 3 00:34:48 Chapter 4 00:48:36 Chapter 5 01:08:54 Chapter 6 01:28:48 Chapter 7 01:54:47 Chapter 8 02:29:10 Chapter 9 02:37:33 Chapter 10 02:47:10 Chapter 11 03:03:02 Chapter 12 03:20:24 Chapter 13 03:27:38 Chapter 14 03:45:10 Chapter 15 03:59:04 Chapter 16 04:11:43 Chapter 17 4:24:34 Chapter 18 4:35:26 Chapter 19 4:45:35 Chapter 20 5:01:37 Chapter 21 5:17:50 Chapter 22 5:48:39 Chapter 23 5:59:02 Chapter 24 6:08:46 Chapter 25 6:19:10 Chapter 26 6:25:01 Chapter 27 6:34:44 Chapter 28 6:44:47 Chapter 29 6:58:26 Epilogue 7:05:01 Closing CreditsWyndcross by Martha Keyes, Families of Dorset 1, Full AudiobookMartha Keyes2023-06-03 | Get the ebook, audio, and paperback versions at books2read.com/u/3n2kN6 Join my newsletter for behind-the-scenes information and little research tidbits! subscribepage.com/o6t0w2
Kate Matcham needs a fortune or a husband. She wants neither. With a tainted inheritance in the balance, she receives one offer to become a scoundrel's mistress and another offer of a marriage of convenience. Before resigning herself to a choice, she accepts the invitation to visit a childhood friend, considering it a last hurrah before embarking on a bleak future.
The visit goes sideways when she falls for the gentleman her friend intends to marry, a man well out of Kate's league--and one who seems to be hiding something. Smuggling has overtaken the county, and it seems that everyone is complicit in the trade that killed her father.
One by one, her options dwindle as she struggles against her strengthening feelings for a duplicitous man, a determination not to hurt her friend, and keeping the promise she made long ago: to stand up to the people who killed her father.