
The Duchess Takes a Lover
Ladies of Seduction, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Heather Wilds
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By:
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Jillian Eaton
About this listen
A duchess with nothing to lose . . .
After a disastrous wedding night followed by eighteen months of isolation at her husband's country estate, the Duchess of Southwick has grown tired of being lonely. There's only so many books a person can read, and Mara has read most of them twice. So she's made a decision. For the first time since her wedding, she's traveling to London. And while she's there, this meek, shy mouse of a wallflower who has never met a shade of beige she didn't like will do the unthinkable.
Mara Buxton, Duchess of Southwick, is going to take a lover.
A duke with everything to gain . . .
When Ambrose hears the rumors swirling about his wife, his initial reaction is scornful amusement. Mara, step out on him? Absurd. While a fiery spark of attraction first drew them together, it was extinguished long ago. The Duchess of Southwick, for all her beauty, is cold as ice, and the only thing she has a chance of inviting into her bed is snow. But when Ambrose discovers that she really does intend to have an affair, his amusement turns to incredulity and jealousy. Mara is his wife, dammit.
If anyone is going to make her burn with passion . . . it's him.
Contains mature themes.
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Cutesy lil rom com
- By Kindle Customer on 02-13-25
By: Erin Clark, and others
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Nocticadia
- By: Keri Lake
- Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Stella Hunter
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
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After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.
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It was perfect
- By Amazon Customer on 11-16-24
By: Keri Lake
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- Cassandra's Fire
- 02-24-25
it was ok.
I felt like something was missing. there should have been more I feel. At the end I felt I was left hanging.
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- G. Woodruff
- 10-12-24
passion and heart
excellent listen with the always wonderful Heather Wilds. content warning for physical abuse of children by parents, domestic violence, off-page animal death. Mostly though it's a lovely story of passionate people finding each other, with a little help.
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