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Making Promises
- Keeping Promise Rock, Book 2
- Narrated by: Paul Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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All Shane Perkins ever wanted to be was a hero. But after a career-shattering decision to go down fighting, Shane comes home from the hospital to four empty walls, a pile of money, and a burning desire for someone to miss him the next time he gets hurt in the line of duty. He ends up an officer in the small town of Levee Oaks, and, addicted to the promise of family, he makes an effort to reconcile with his flighty, troubled sister. Kimmy makes her living as a dancer, and her partner steals Shane's breath at first sight.
Mikhail Vasilyovitch Bayul dances like an angel, but his past is less than heavenly. Since he left Russia, he's made only two promises: to stay off the streets and stay clean, and to take his mother someplace beautiful before she dies. Making promises to anybody else is completely out of the question - but then, Mikhail has never met anybody like Shane. Earnest, brave, and self-deprecating, Shane seems to speak Mikhail's language, and no one is more surprised than Mikhail to find that keeping promises is Shane's best talent of all.
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- The Hurley Boys, Book 1
- By: Lauren Dane
- Narrated by: Kate Turnbull
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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She has complete control - and he's determined to take it away. A librarian in the small town of Hood River, Natalie Clayton's world is very nearly perfect. After a turbulent childhood and her once-wild ways, life is now under control. But trouble has a way of turning up unexpectedly - especially in the tall, charismatically sexy form of Paddy Hurley. And Paddy is the kind of trouble that Natalie has a taste for. Even after years of the rock-and-roll lifestyle, Paddy never forgot the two wickedly hot weeks he once shared with Natalie.
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The BEST Kind of Trouble & Start To Series
- By DK on 09-19-15
By: Lauren Dane
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Talk Dirty to Me
- Plum Orchard, Book 1
- By: Dakota Cassidy
- Narrated by: Scarlet Chase
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Former mean girl Dixie Davis is back in town, and it's payback time. Literally. Dixie is flat broke, and her best - make that only - friend, Landon, is throwing her a lifeline from the Great Beyond. Dixie stands to inherit his business...which is a phone sex empire. Wait, what? Plum Orchard, Georgia, is about to get even juicier.
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It's not a comedy, but it is a great story.
- By Diana on 12-25-14
By: Dakota Cassidy
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Long Ride Home
- A Cambio Springs Short Story
- By: Elizabeth Hunter
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 46 mins
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Welcome to Cambio Springs. In this small desert town, secrets bubble up from the desert floor, and history is written on the canyon walls. Seven friends will gather at the crossroads, because in Cambio Springs everything - and everyone - changes. Jena Crowe escaped the Springs 10 years ago. Now she's heading home with two boys to start a new life. With her husband's ghost keeping her company on the road, Jena will learn that moving back and moving backward aren't necessarily the same thing.
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Introduction to series. Okay.
- By Diana on 07-10-17
By: Elizabeth Hunter
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Tethered
- By: L. D. Davis
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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Donya Stewart's chest filled with the soft beating wings of butterflies when she first met Emmet Grayne's green eyes at the ripe age of five. Unable to identify the tugging pressure within her when in his presence, Donya moved through the first several years of her life addled by her feelings for the boy who was her best friend's brother and very much like her own sibling. But one cool autumn night in her mystifying teenage years, Emmet erases any ideas Donya has of him being anything like a sibling.
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A BITTER-SWEET SAD LOVE STORY THAT SPANNED YEARS
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 06-29-16
By: L. D. Davis
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Santori
- By: Maris Black
- Narrated by: J.F. Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Michael Kage Santori has just inherited a thriving hotel and millions of dollars. He’s poised to become an MMA champion. Things couldn’t be better between him and his college boy lover, Jamie Atwood - especially in the bedroom, where Jamie is more than eager to let Kage take out his aggressions on him. Kage seems to have it all, but success and happiness have come at a steep price. After all of the childhood trauma he endured at the hands of his controlling uncle, Peter Santori, it’s a miracle Kage has any shred of sanity left. And now, because of him, Jamie is a murderer.
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Oddly constructed but compelling serial installment
- By Cranky Reader on 04-13-19
By: Maris Black
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Animal Magnetism
- Animal Magnetism Series, Book 1
- By: Jill Shalvis
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In this debut to an exciting new series, Lilah Young has lived in Sunshine, Idaho, all her life, while pilot-for-hire Brady Miller is just passing through. But he soon has Lilah abandoning her instincts and giving in to a primal desire. Contains mature themes.
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Bordering on irresponsible
- By GP on 03-01-13
By: Jill Shalvis
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The Vixen and the Vet
- A Modern Fairytale, Book 1
- By: Katy Regnery
- Narrated by: Rose Hudson
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In this modern-retelling of "Beauty and the Beast", Savannah Carmichael, betrayed by an unreliable source, returns to her hometown of Danvers, Virginia, with her once-promising journalism career in ruins. Given the opportunity to get back in the game by writing a patriotic human interest piece, Savannah turns her attention to the town hermit, Asher Lee, a wounded veteran who returned to Danvers eight years ago, and hasn't been seen since.
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A BREATHTAKING JOURNEY OF TRUST, BETRAYAL & LOVE
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 04-11-15
By: Katy Regnery
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Undeclared
- The Woodlands, Book 1
- By: Jen Frederick
- Narrated by: Connor Kelly-Eiding, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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For four years, Grace Sullivan wrote to a Marine she never met, and fell in love. But when his deployment ended, so did the letters. Ever since that day, Grace has been coasting, academically and emotionally. The one thing she's decided? No way is Noah Jackson - or any man - ever going to break her heart again.
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Swoon
- By KH on 09-18-14
By: Jen Frederick
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Alex
- Cold Fury Hockey, Book 1
- By: Sawyer Bennett
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Cris Dukehart
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Hockey star Alexander Crossman has a reputation as a cold-hearted player on and off the ice. Pushed into the sport by his alcoholic father, Alex isn't afraid to give fans the proverbial middle finger, relishing his role as the MVP they love to hate. Management, however, isn't so amused. Now Alex has a choice: fix his public image through community service or ride the bench. But Alex refuses to be molded into the Carolina Cold Fury poster boy... not even by a tempting redhead with killer curves.
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Emotional and Sexy!!!!
- By Nicole Garcia on 03-17-15
By: Sawyer Bennett
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His for the Holidays
- By: Josh Lanyon, Z. A. Maxfield, L. B. Gregg, and others
- Narrated by: Alec McKellen, Max Tatch, Max Bellmore, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Hope brightens a bleak Edinburgh December. A man gets a second chance with his high school crush. A decade-long game of cat and mouse comes to a passionate conclusion. And Santa Claus drives a red muscle car. Heat up your holidays with this collection of four festive tales from some of the top talent in the male/male genre.
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A Great Holiday Treat...
- By Donald on 03-16-12
By: Josh Lanyon, and others
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- Eric
- 05-20-15
Another Amazing Story!!
I applaud Amy Lane for keeping the story going. Time to buy the next book!
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- Morgan A Skye
- 09-22-16
One of my favorite couples of ALL TIME!
Paul Morey absolutely OWNS this!
Book 2 in the Keeping Promise Series is every bit as good as book one – it may be my favorite in the series, and it is certainly my favorite couple of the series.
Shane is a bi, hunky bear of a man, kind of a doofus, who constantly puts his faith in people who let him down. He almost dies when he’s outed in front of his police force by his no-good-a-hole-cowardly-double-crossing-“boyfriend”, given a ton of money when it’s found out WHY he was injured, but insists on still working in the dangerous field because he has a deep need to be needed.
Mikhail “Mickey” is an ex-rent boy from Russia who dances in the Renaissance Faire circuit with Shane’s twin, Kimmy. Mickey is cantankerous, cranky, snarky, and prickly – but underneath all that he has a huge heart and really only wants someone to love him.
Mickey does everything he can think of to keep Shane at arms length, but Shane has seen through the prickly exterior to the real man Mickey hides from the world and he’s smitten through and through.
Together the weather the storm of Mickey’s mother’s death, Shane’s innumerable injuries, tragedies at the Pulpit and Kimmy’s devastating break-up with her drug-dealing boyfriend.
In the end the ever doubtful Mickey must decide that he’s worthy of love and let Shane in, or risk losing him forever.
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Mickey is one of my favorite Amy Lane characters of all time. He is so damn funny and snarky but sweet at the same time. He and Shane are so perfect together because Shane is just too good to be true and he needs some salty to counter all that sweet.
As we see in the later novels, Mickey and Shane make this amazing duo who just give and give and give and they end up being true pillars in the extended Pulpit family.
I also thought the smexy times between Shane and Mickey were some of the hottest in the series. That crazy Russian really knows how to push Shane’s buttons and vice versa.
Amy knows how to make us cry and for me the moment when Mickey eviscerates Shane in a ploy to keep himself from needing Shane’s help and love is it for me. It just gutted me how strong Shane was and how truly viscous Mickey was – BUT it made their reconnection so much sweeter by comparison. It was so REAL – don’t we hurt the ones we love the most because we know JUST how to get them where it hurts the most?
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Paul Morey is my hero in this narration! He does this amazing Russian accent for Mickey that just turns my crank. He is perfect! When he does the growly voice of Deacon and the more crazy voice of Crick or the snippy voice of Jeff I just KNOW he understands and “gets” these characters. Even the girls, Kimmy and Benny sound great.
I make no bones about my devotion to the “Queen of Angst” and I think this is one her finest. This is one of the audio books that I listen to over and over because Paul Morey did such genius work.
Of course I give it 6 of 5 stars
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- Sho Sunaga
- 03-03-13
Read the first book, first!
This book was particularly great in that half of the story's timeline is parallel to the previous book, thus adding a back/extra story to it. I just couldn't get into Shane as much as Deacon and Crick but I really loved the character of Micky. I know a person exactly like him. It was painful to watch (read) him. I have to say there were a bit too much of crap upon crap heaped upon them, but they prevailed and that's what I think counts. I am glad that Deacon doesn't have to worry about the next door anymore!
on to the next!
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- Sam54
- 12-19-19
Good story. One I’ll listen to again.
Story was a good one, for sure. It’s a love story. With wonderful characters.
Narrator was truly amazing.
The only negative was in the production. Inserting that grating, annoying music between chapters was a very bad decision. Perhaps if the music decibels hadn’t exceeded the narration so much, it wouldn’t have been so invasive.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-07-16
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Amy Lane always makes me cry. I Love it. This series is one of the best things going. characters are. some of the best around. Shane and Mickey are so fine they blow my mind!!!!!!!
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- J. Mitchell
- 06-05-15
If I had to choose a best friend? Mikhail.
What did you love best about Making Promises?
It would have to be Shane and Mikhail, they were such engaging characters just trying to forge a future together.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Making Promises?
It is hard to pick just one because there were many great moments in the book, but if I had to choose one, it would be Mikhail's mother preparing Shane for her own death.
Have you listened to any of Paul Morey’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is one of his best performances, for narrative style as well as consistent characterizations.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Um, Mikhail's mother's death...
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- Kevin Knapp
- 02-27-13
Loved it, what a great story!!!!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This is a great book! I could not put it down. Went through parts 1 and 2 now moving on to the third Bulletproof.
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- Tammy M
- 10-04-18
Just as good as the first!
If you're a fan of Amy Lane then you already know how well she writes love, pain, angst and redemption stories. This book is classic Amy Lane and it gave me all the feels! Shane is tall, deceptively imposing and has a heart of gold. Mikie is brash, outspoken and has this larger than life personality all wrapped up in a bite size package. The unlikely pair meet when Shane goes to visit his sister at a Ren Faire and the attraction is obvious, mutual, but Mikie fights it every step of the way. He's like one of the many cats Shane has adopted, but Mikie is most definitely feral. It takes a whole hell of a lot of cajoling, courting and everything shy of Shane using his handcuffs to cuff Mikie to the bed to get Mikie to stop long enough to realize that Shane is not like all those other guys. The big, generous cop that puts everyone he knows and loves before himself is Mikie's knight in a blue uniform with an almost constant set of broken ribs.
This was a long story but it kept my attention throughout. If I could have listened from start to finish without stopping, I definitely would have. Paul Morey is the most amazing narrator that ever lived. His voice is like honey slowly trickling down a rough, prickly tree branch, both scratching an itch and causing goosebumps. Every character had their own, distinct tone in the story and every iota of emotion that was written in the words pulled from Lane's brain was poured into the narration.
I'm sure you could start with this story as a stand alone, but listening to (or reading) the first book will give you the backstory of many of the secondary characters and, in my opinion, make this book that much better.
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- Donald
- 05-30-13
Another Journey to take...
The 2nd book in the Promise Rock series, I really enjoyed this book. I inadvertently read book 3 (Living Promises: Keeping Promise Rock) first but I don't think the reading order was too detrimental to the stories presented by Amy Lane. Learning of Shane's story, Mikhail's journey and the eventual joining was a delightful experience. Though maybe not as gut-wrenching as the first book, the story still evoked a mass of emotional responses and was still worth the read. I do recommend this book!
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- Belen
- 12-24-15
Thank you, Amy Lane.
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I worried before I started this. Mainly because it's over fifteen hours long and after "Keeping Promise Rock" I honestly didn't know if I had it in me if this story took the same kinds of twists and turns. I swear - Amy Lane can rip out my heart like few others.
This story is beautiful in its simplicity. It's all about redemption, love, and, ultimately, finding home and family. I loved every aspect of this story. It touched a little piece of my soul, and I'm better for it.
Paul Morey's narration isn't perfect. He fumbles a little, and there are some flubs, but it doesn't matter. He makes this story come to life in a way that absolutely respects the source material and brings these characters beautifully into full bloom.
I loved it. Even when it was breaking my heart, I loved it. This will immediately go to my "favorites" shelf and I know I will listen to, and read, this again and again because this story made me feel good. Warm and happy and oh-so-grateful for what I have.
Thank you, Amy Lane. Thank you.
Highly Recommended.
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