AnneMarie Brear has 11 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators. The most-rated is Where Rainbows End.
Broken Hero: World War II Romance
Summary
Broken Hero is an uplifting story about ordinary people adjusting to cope with extraordinary situations. Audrey Pearson's life changed dramatically when WWII broke out and her large home, Twelve Pines on the East Yorkshire coast, became a convalescence home for wounded soldiers. Her life is no longer lavish, with entertainment and beautiful clothes and surrounded by a loving family. Soldiers, physically and mentally wounded, now fill her home. The smell of disinfectant replaces her mother's perfume, and gone are the friends and acquaintances - instead nurses roam the hallways. Captain Jake Harding, a doctor training in psychiatry, arrives at Twelve Pines. Audrey immediately finds herself attracted to the captain, but he is remote toward her. Puzzled by his cold behavior, Audrey tries to learn more about the handsome captain. He reveals that he's lost a wife and baby in childbirth and refuses to ever remarry. However, despite this, Audrey believes she can change his mind and make him aware he doesn't have to spend his life alone. The ice around Jake's heart begins to melt. For years he has rejected the possibility of finding love again because of the pain it caused him before, but the beautiful Audrey shows him her love, and she needs someone to love her in return. Could he honestly walk away from her, from the love that could be his?
©2014 AnneMarie Brear (P)2018 AnneMarie Brear
To Gain What's Lost
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Yorkshire, 1864. The daughter of a wealthy Yorkshire landowner, Anna Thornton leads a privileged life. But she is not content. She longs to be accepted for the free-thinking, independent woman she is. When she meets dashing adventurer Matt Cowan, she thinks she has met her soul mate. However, he’s not the man she thinks he is. After he sets sail for South America, Anna discovers she’s pregnant. Heartbroken, she flees her family home, determined to keep her child’s illegitimacy a secret. Just when she starts to settle into her new life, strong-minded Brenton O’Mara - who has turned his back on his father’s wealth - seeks work as a labourer at Anna’s new home....
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2019 Story Sound
Grace's Courage
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Grace Woodruff fights for her sisters' happiness while sacrificing any chance for her own. The eldest of seven daughters, Grace must act as a buffer between her violent, ambitious father and the sisters who depend on her, while her disenchanted mother withdraws to her rooms. Rejected by her first love and facing a spinster's future, she struggles to hold the broken family together through her father's infidelity, one sister's alcoholism, and another's out-of-wedlock pregnancy by an unsuitable match. Grace faces fresh anguish when her first love returns to wreak havoc in her life. Will the possibility of true love lead Grace to embrace her own right to happiness?
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2019 Story Sound
Southern Sons
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1914, Australia: As war is declared, the idyllic world of Blue Water Station is torn apart when Oliver, the eldest grandson and heir, shares his desire to enlist in the army. His enthusiasm ignites his brother, cousins and friends to do the same but upsets his sister, Tilly. After a tragic family incident, she is left to run the cattle station and take care of the older folk. A chance meeting with a sophisticated lieutenant opens up a friendship through letters, but it’s a rogue stockman who attracts her attention - with dire consequences.... Surviving a baptism of battle fire in Gallipoli, Oliver is sent to the Western Front. But as the terrors of war impact him, he feels the heavy guilt of encouraging the others to follow him into combat. Will he, and they, ever make it home to Blue Water?
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2019 Aurora Audio Books
The Promise of Tomorrow
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Charlotte Brookes flees her lecherous guardian McBride, taking her younger sister with her. After a year on the road, they stumble into a Yorkshire village where the Wheelers, owners of the village shop, take them in. This new life is strange for Charlotte, but preferable to living with McBride or surviving on the roads. Harry Belmont is an important man in the village, but he’s missing something in his life. His budding friendship with Charlotte gives him hope she will feel more for him one day, and he will marry the woman he yearns for. When McBride discovers where Charlotte lives, his threats begin. Harry fights to keep Charlotte safe, but World War I erupts, and Harry enlists. Left to face a world of new responsibilities and Harry’s difficult sister, Charlotte must run the gauntlet of family disputes, McBride's constant harassment, and the possibility of the man she loves being killed. Can Charlotte find the happiness that always seems under threat, and will Harry return home to her?
©2018 AnneMarie Brear (P)2021 AnneMarie Brear
Kitty McKenzie's Land
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1866: Kitty McKenzie's path has taken her from the slums of York to the inhospitable bush of colonial Australia. Yet when she believes her dreams will never be attained, she is shown that sometimes life can be even better than what you wish for. Kitty is gifted land in the far north of New South Wales. Life at the northern property is full of hardships - however, Kitty's strength of will and belief in herself give her the courage most women of her time never realise they have. A decided thorn in her side is the arrogant and patronising Miles Grayson, owner of the adjourning run. He wants her gone so he can have her land, but he wants her even more.
©2015 AnneMarie Brear (P)2019 Aurora Audio Books
Beneath a Stormy Sky
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1879: Shipwrecked off the West Coast of Australia, Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and a kindly doctor, eventually making a fresh start in the town of Albany. Unexpected new friendships with two men, old gentleman George and dashing Connor, give her joy - but when she accepts an invitation to stay at George's sheep station, the locals are scandalised by a single woman in the company of men. Louisa's growing feelings for Connor are shattered by a revelation - and it is gentle George who she suddenly marries. Only, settling into station life comes with its own problems, financial and otherwise. Confronted by a devastating fire and a gang of bushrangers, Louisa feels as though her world is spinning out of control. Can she save the sheep station? And how long can she deny the love she feels for Connor?
©2019 AnneMarie Brear (P)2020 Aurora Audio Books
Aurora's Pride
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Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family, a nice home, a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man to offer marriage, and the man for her is Reid Sinclair, heir to the Sinclair fortune. But Reid's mother is against the match and unearths a secret that will tear Aurora's world apart. Unwilling to bring shame on her family and needing answers, Aurora moves to York. By chance, she reconnects with a man from her past, and before he leaves with the army to war in South Africa, he offers her security through marriage. Aurora knows she should be happy, but the memory of her love for Reid threatens her future. When tragedy strikes, can Aurora find the strength to accept her life and forget the past?
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2020 Story Sound
Catrina's Return
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The Scottish Highlands, 1899. A life-altering event led Catrina Davies to hide from her family and society. But Travis Millard, the man she used to love, finds her, and she agrees to marry him and to return to her family estate, Davmoor Court in Yorkshire. But while her father clings to life, Davmoor is nearly ruined by her brother's gambling obsession. As Catrina adjusts to her regained position in society, her marriage comes under attack from Travis' grandmother, who has her own reason for loathing the family. When one of her brother's adversaries stakes his claim on the estate, the resulting chaos threatens the people she loves the most.
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2019 Story Sound
Isabelle's Choice
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Halifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately run workhouse. After the matron's son attacks her, Isabelle decides to escape by agreeing to marry a farmer she has never met. But Farrell is a drunkard and in constant feud with his landlord, Ethan Harrington. When he deserts her, Isabelle and Ethan are thrown together. But both are married and must hide their growing love.
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2020 Story Sound
Where Rainbows End
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It’s 1850, and the Noble family have travelled to the other side of the world to start a new life after scandal drove them from their native England. Pippa Noble is determined to reclaim their honour by making her father’s plan for an outback farm a reality, although her ambition is frowned upon by a society that has very set ideas about a woman’s place. Pippa learns the hard way about the unforgiving nature of the bush, sometimes with devastating consequences. And when unfortunate circumstance leads to her tending the farm alone, it is the friendship of neighbouring estate owner Gil Ashford that helps her through. Then an unexpected visitor from England arrives, putting Pippa’s dreams in jeopardy. But she refuses to let go. She will hold on to her family’s land, even if it means losing everything else....
©2017 AnneMarie Brear (P)2019 Aurora Audio Books