Merry Farmer has 21 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is A Second Chance .
A Second Chance
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Noelle Walters can hardly believe how lucky she is to be given a chance to start over after a hard life as a soiled dove in the American West. But almost from the moment she steps off the ship in London, England, everything goes wrong. The lord of the manor where she was supposed to take up a position as a maid has disappeared under scandalous circumstances, and Noelle’s services are no longer required. Alone in a foreign country, penniless, and ignorant of the ways of British society, Noelle fears that her only chance of survival will be taking up her old profession again.
Ram Singh hasn’t been able to forget the beautiful American woman he escorted from his employer’s ship to her new job. When he discovers that Noelle has met with nothing but misfortune, he feels compelled to help her in every way he can, including sneaking her into his lodgings to save her from the street. But helping Noelle puts Ram’s plans for the future in jeopardy when they are discovered together. They must face the choice to survive any way they can on their own or hope for a second chance to fall in love.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
Summer with a Star
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All Tasha Pike has wanted for the past 20 years is to rent Sand Dollar Point for a summer. The grand Victorian on the beach of Summerbury, Maine was the object of her childhood fantasy and her standard of romance - and it was finally happening. Her dream summer is ruined, however, when she arrives in Summerbury to find that Hollywood superstar Spencer Ellis has muscled his way into the house instead. His offer that they share Sand Dollar Point is not only infuriating - it's insulting. He's a celebrity, and one she's determined to hate. Spencer's summer in Maine was supposed to help him get his head screwed on straight. One look at Tasha, however, made that impossible. She's beautiful. She's angry. She doesn't care who he is. She doesn't care about his fame. In fact, she doesn't even like him. She's irresistible. He's only got the summer. She's only got her heart. They've only got each other.
©2015 Meredith Farmer (P)2016 Meredith Farmer
Catch a Falling Star
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The last thing Jo Burkhart ever thought she'd do was have a one night stand. But when a little harmless, coffee shop flirting with high-powered Broadway and television director Benjamin Paul leads to a steamy proposition, how could a romance novelist like Jo resist? The last thing Ben Paul needed was to fall in love. But when he lands in bed with a down-to-earth, genuine Jo - a woman who doesn't want anything from him but an afternoon of passion - his heart gets carried away. He can't let it end with one night. The last thing either of them needed was for their worlds to collide. But when Ben's career implodes under the weight of salacious rumors, and Jo finds herself on the verge of losing her family's house in Maine, they may be the only people who can save each other from disaster. Unless being together creates an even bigger disaster for them both.
©2015 Meredith Farmer (P)2016 Meredith Farmer
His Perfect Bride
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For Corva Collier, life as a mail-order bride in the quirky town of Haskell, Wyoming is her last chance for escape. She longs for a peaceful life away from the darkness of her past where she can create the paintings that are close to her heart, and where she hopes she can grow to love her husband. But how do you love a man who was persuaded to marry you against his will? Franklin Haskell never planned to marry. What woman would want a man who was crippled due to his own arrogance? But when he is offered the chance to help a woman in crisis, he agrees to wed. Corva is so much more than he expected, and when a baseball game gives her the chance to shine, he loses his heart. But how do you tell a woman you love her when she deserves so much better? The game of love has never been so hard to play, or so worth winning.
©2015 Merry Farmer (P)2016 Merry Farmer
Carbon Dating
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Laura Kincade is a nerd, and proud of it. She designs rockets, she hunts for dinosaur fossils, and she knows who she is. So when sizzling cowboy Ted Flint bumps into her at a party - literally, with messy results - she instantly feels out of her depth. Could a guy like Ted really be interested in a girl like her? It certainly seems like it when he invites her out to his ranch to take a look at his bone. Ahem - his dinosaur bone. Ted has never met anyone like Laura. She’s funny, smart, and adorable. So why is she playing so hard to get? He has a harder time getting her to say yes to a date with him than he has digging up the fossil Laura discovers on his ranch. If not for ice cream, all would be lost. But when the value of the fossil leaks to the community, Ted suddenly finds himself fighting to keep it and the ranch, and Laura too. The Bonnevilles will stop at nothing to claim the discovery for themselves, and Ted and Laura find themselves in danger of losing the battle, and each other too.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
Chaos Theory
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Melody Clutterbuck has her eyes on the prize, and that prize is handsome, uptight engineer, Will Darling. As part-owner of the local flower shop, people expect her notoriously sunny disposition and esoteric way of doing things to shine, but when the town gets wrapped up in an orienteering competition, Melody’s competitive nature comes out. She plans to win both the wilderness event and the man, and nothing will get in her way. Not even Will himself.
Will Darling is nothing if not a fierce competitor. He is focused, determined, and driven. So when he finds himself falling for Melody and her chaotic, flighty, sexy ways, it seriously threatens his regimented world. And when they’re paired up for the orienteering competition and dropped into the middle of the Shoshone National Forest alone, more than one kind of sparks fly.
Can Will hold on to his organized world, or will the fire between him and Melody take over and spread chaos in its wake?
Please be advised that the steam level is this audiobook is very hot!
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2018 Merry Farmer
His Bewildering Bride
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Seamstress Wendy Weatherford is overjoyed when she is offered the chance to be a mail-order bride for one of the men of Paradise Ranch. When she arrives in Haskell, Wyoming, her intended groom takes one look at her and refuses to go through with the wedding. He wasn't expecting his bride to be a former slave. Abandoned at the altar and alone on the frontier, Wendy doesn't know where to turn. Until rescue comes in an unlikely form. Travis Montrose has plans to start a new job and eventually own his own ranch, not to marry his brother's rejected bride. But he can't stand by and watch the exotic and beautiful Wendy suffer, particularly not when she proves to be a woman of strength and substance. Their unconventional union stirs up trouble from the start, even as it stirs passions. When Wendy is given an opportunity to compete for the chance to own her own dress shop, Travis will stop at nothing to help her win against a crooked competitor, even if it means sacrificing his future.
©2016 Meredith Farmer (P)2017 Meredith Farmer
May Mistakes
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After the death of her father, Miss Elaine Bond had decided to embrace life as an independent woman...much to the chagrin of her neighbors. Her eccentric ways alarm the entire town of Brynthwaite, to the point where concerned friends turn to the only person they believe can settle Elaine into a respectable married life, mysterious bookseller Mr. Basil Wall. Basil has been in love with Elaine since the moment he moved to Brynthwaite years ago, but the secret that drove him out of London and into the remote Lake District has kept him from declaring himself. At least until a twist of fate throws the two potential lovers together in a way that neither of them expected. But what begins as a romance that is as charming as it is sultry turns into a game with far higher stakes when the infamous Missing Earl of Waltham is tracked down and dragged out into the light. And with the fate of Parliament - not to mention a bill increasing the rights of women - in the balance, Basil must choose between love and duty. Which leaves Elaine caught between what is right and what is proper, and leads her to an adventure far more daring than any of her Brynthwaite neighbors could dream of. Please be advised: Steam level - very hot! The Silver Foxes of Westminster Series consists of: December Heart (and its accompanying novellas) Starcross Lovers Starcross Dreams August Sunrise (and its accompanying novellas) Winterberry Spark Winterberry Fire May Mistakes (and its accompanying novellas) Brynthwaite Promise Brynthwaite Summer
©2018 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
His Heartbroken Bride
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Libby Chance Sims was orphaned, along with her siblings, at an early age, traveled west on the Oregon Trail, and thought she had her fairytale ending when she met and married a good man at trail's end. But 10 years later, when her husband is killed in a logging accident, her life takes a horrific turn at the hands of unscrupulous "family friend", Hector. Fearing for herself and the lives of her two boys, she flees Oregon for Haskell, Wyoming and her family. But has she run far enough to escape her past? Mason Montrose has never forgotten Libby, the beautiful, young bride he fell in love with before realizing she was married 10 years ago in Oregon. When she steps down from the train in Haskell, dressed in widow's black with fear in her eyes, all of the affection and longing for her that he thought he put behind him returns. He will stop at nothing to protect Libby from the demons chasing her, both real and emotional, even marrying her to keep her safe. Some demons are more sinister than others, though. When Hector arrives in Haskell, it takes more than the power of Mason's love and devotion to Libby to defeat him, it takes an entire community. Please be advised: steam level = HOT
©2016 Merry Farmer (P)2017 Merry Farmer
A Wild Adventure
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After years of reluctantly living the wild life in Haskell, Wyoming, all Rose Rawlins wants is to settle down into a quiet position as a maid for the Bond family in Brynthwaite, England. She takes her position as nurse for charming and irascible Mr. Bond and confidant of adventurous Miss Elaine Bond seriously, vowing that nothing will get in the way of her duty to her new friends.
Until handsome and tempting Dr. Isaac Newsome comes along.
Widower, Isaac Newsome, doesn’t feel as though he has anything to offer a woman, but from the first moment he lays eyes on Rose, that belief is challenged. Rose’s refreshing, American ways breathe new life into what was becoming a stale existence. But in spite of the fiery attraction between them, Rose is holding something back.
It takes a trio of mischievous young men from Brynthwaite Municipal Orphanage, all of Mr. Bond’s wiles, a mysterious and regal bookseller who is also new to town, and a daring boat race to bring Rose and Isaac together, but even then, will a sudden tragedy pull them apart?
Narrated by the author, who is not a professional narrator, but sure does love telling you her stories...and who blushes at the naughty bits.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
A Tempting Voyage
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Captain Albert Tennant has lived most of his life on the sea, in spite of his noble status. It is his home and his passion. But the adventure of transporting many young women from Haskell, Wyoming, to their new lives in England, has highlighted how dull his own life has become. Until Domenica Ortega steps aboard his ship. Domenica is more than ready to give up her life as a soiled dove for the promise of a fresh start that London provides. But beneath her brash, devil-may-care attitude lurks a secret fear that she hides from the world. It shakes her to her core that handsome Captain Tennant can see right through her mask to the heart she tries to keep hidden. And unlike any other man, Albert makes her feel safe. When a member of Albert’s crew goes missing halfway across the ocean, Domenica and Albert must discover what happened, with very little evidence to go on. They have until the ship reaches London to uncover the perpetrator and bring them to justice. But mysteries are difficult to solve when temptation abounds, and the biggest question of all is how Albert will be able to let Domenica go, at the end of their voyage. A Tempting Voyage is the sixth audiobook of the West meets East series, which is a follow-up series to the Brides of Paradise Ranch, and includes these chapters: A New Life A Place to Belong A Second Chance A Wild Adventure A Passionate Deception A Tempting Voyage It is also a prequel to December Heart, the first audiobook in The Silver Foxes of Westminster series.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
His Dangerous Bride
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Luke Chance has always been considered the life of the party, the bad-boy troublemaker, known more for his winning smile and entertaining exploits than his character. But in his heart, Luke knows it's time to be a man. While others laugh at his antics, he longs for respect and the chance to prove he can be a leader. The first step toward becoming a leader is to send for a mail-order bride from Hurst Home. Eden Gardner is more than ready to leave her shady past and her even shadier family behind for a normal life. She may be bold as brass, but that doesn't mean she doesn't long for safety, peace, and a husband to love and protect her. Luke seems like the answer to her prayers from the moment she steps off the train in Haskell, Wyoming. But the past has a way of catching up with those who try to run from it, and Eden's brothers are no exception. Just when Luke is finally given the chance to prove himself, a far greater challenge will test his strength and his newfound love. PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam Level = HOT If you would like to hear this story without any "scenes," check out Eden: The Dangerous Bride
©2016 Meredith Farmer (P)2016 Meredith Farmer
A Passionate Deception
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Ellie Braun is on her way from the Old West to England to start a new life as lady’s maid to American heiress Helena Mortimer. But when Helena runs off with one of the porters from the ship as soon as they dock in London, it’s up to Ellie to smooth things over with Lord Henry Howsden, Helena’s fiancé. But instead of being disappointed, Lord Henry concocts a plan for Ellie to impersonate Helena in order to fool his family. A former soiled dove pretending to be a wealthy heiress in the household of a marquis? What could go wrong? Henry Howsden has resented his father’s attempts to sell him in marriage to a woman he’s never seen from day one. By introducing Ellie to his family as Miss Mortimer, letting them fall in love with her, then revealing her true identity, he intends to prove to them that common people have worth, and that marriage is not a game. But almost from the start, he falls in love with the beautiful, clever, and free-spirited Ellie. She is everything that he has never been permitted to be, and all too soon he can’t imagine a life without her. But the gulf between an ex-prostitute and a British nobleman is an enormous one, and the passion that develops between Ellie and Henry may prove to be as impossible as it is undeniable.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
Opposites Attract
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Haskell, Wyoming, has a rich and vibrant history dating back to the Old West. But with the opening of Paradise Space Flight, an aeronautics company and brain-child of Howard Franklin Haskell IV, the entire town is looking to the future. All except cowgirl Casey Flint. Daughter of one of the original Paradise Ranch families, Casey is reeling from all of the change in her hometown. Even more so when project manager Scott Martin moves into town and turns her world upside down. Scott is more than ready to embrace the quieter pace of life that Haskell represents while helping a new and exciting company to launch...in more ways than one. His life gets even better when he meets and falls hard for local girl, Casey. But Casey proves to be more of a challenge than he anticipated when she seeks to block his efforts to buy land from her father. Scott and Casey rub each other the wrong way, but the sparks they create are irresistible. But just as the two rivals are tempted to give in to attraction, the infamous Bonneville family causes trouble for both Scott and Casey's family. When they threaten to buy out Casey's family's ranch, everyone's futures are in jeopardy. Hearts are on the line as the cowgirl and the engineer must work together to preserve the past and protect the future. The Nerds of Paradise series take place in the modern-day world of Haskell, Wyoming.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2017 Merry Farmer
Willow: Bride of Pennsylvania
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Willow: Bride of Pennsylvania is second in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series. When a fire destroys the factory where Willow Miller works, her only choice for a secure future comes through becoming a mail-order bride to ex-Amish Amos Stoltzfus and moving to her ancestral home of Pennsylvania. Hope carries her forward into a new life, but guilt over her part in the fire that destroyed the factory threatens to hold her back. Amos Stoltzfus is overjoyed to bring someone as sweet and special as Willow into his life to recapture a sense of family and love that he has been missing. But Amos has a past of his own and unresolved conflict with his neighbor and former best friend, Mark Lapp, that stands in the way of family, happiness, and the community around him. Can Willow help resolve the pain and heal the breach that divides Amos from his community and his culture, or will her troubles stand in the way of her and Amos' happiness?
©2015 Merry Farmer (P)2015 Merry Farmer
A New Life
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Millie Horner considers herself the luckiest woman in the world. Saved from a life of prostitution in the Old West, she is determined to make a new life for herself across the ocean in Cornwall, England. But life below-stairs at Starcross Castle is filled with its own problems, specifically, the problem of making sure that none of her new friends discover the life she came from. That challenge becomes even harder when she falls for handsome and ambitious footman, Owen Llewellyn. Owen has his sights set on winning a job as foreman of one of the mines on the property owned by Starcross Castle’s lord, Peter deVere, the Earl of Dunsford. Those plans take on a new urgency as love blooms between him and Millie. But Lord Dunsford’s wicked nephew, Lord William is determined to undermine Owen and bend Millie to his own lascivious designs. Can the power of love overcome all obstacles, or will Millie’s past stop her from living a new life?
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2018 Merry Farmer
September Awakening
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Lady Lavinia Prior has lived her whole life under her mother’s thumb. Heaven forbid she should form an opinion of her own or want something more than the rigid role her mother has planned for her as the perfect wife of an important man. But since her mother has never deemed any man to be good enough, Lavinia is at risk of becoming a spinster by default until one cringeworthy night during a late summer house party at Winterberry Park... Dr. Armand Pearson never expected to inherit the title of Viscount Helm and all that goes with it upon his cousin’s death. With his medical career decimated by the duties of his title, the responsibility of an estate he doesn’t know how to run on his shoulders, and a position in the House of Lords that his friends urge him to attend to, the last thing he has time for is a wife. But fate, and Lady Ursula Prior, have other plans... What starts out as the most awkward, uncomfortable marriage in all of England turns into something else entirely when Lavinia and Armand discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. And when they make a deal to combine forces in order to defeat an old foe, both awaken to a whole new world of possibility and love.
©2018 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
A Place to Belong
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Clara Partridge has never fit anywhere. Literally. At over six feet tall, she has always considered herself awkward and out of place. But now that she has a chance to break away from the terrible life she’s been living in the American Old West and to start anew in tranquil Wiltshire, England, she is willing to do whatever it takes to fit in. Even though the last job she’s suited for is that of maid in a wealthy gentleman’s house. But when she meets Rev. Arthur Fallon, all of her efforts to be someone she’s not seem to be paying off.
Arthur knows he’s not the best vicar, but he tries to be the best man he can be. Even when the Amazonian Clara captures his heart with one awkward outburst in church. Even when he learns the truth of who she used to be. And even when Clara comes to his rescue to help him care for the baby of a fallen woman. Clara and Arthur know they are the last two people who should be together, but their hearts say otherwise.
But when word of the baby’s parentage leaks out, Clara finds herself scrambling not just to fit in but to find a place for the baby - and for Arthur - and for her - to belong.
Please be advised: Steam Level: Hot
Narrated by the author, who is not a professional narrator, but who sure did have fun reading her story to you and blushing at the steamy parts.
A Place to Belong is the second book of the six-book West Meets East series, a follow-up series to The Brides of Paradise Ranch, and includes:
A New Life
A Place to Belong
A Second Chance
A Wild Adventure
A Passionate Deception
A Tempting Voyage
It is also a prequel to August Sunrise, the second book in The Silver Foxes of Westminster series.
©2017 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
April Seduction
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Theirs was a love that defied the rules, sizzled with passion...then fell apart spectacularly. Katya Marlowe, the countess of Stanhope, was forced into a loveless marriage when she was only 18, became a mother of three before she was 23, and a widow by the age of 24, and before she hit 30, she developed a reputation as a siren and a woman of power. But as clever and seductive as she has been painted to be, her heart has only belonged to one man. Malcolm Campbell has been a fighter his whole life, willing to go to extreme lengths to support the causes he believes in. Ruthless, arrogant, and ferocious, he has dedicated his life to eradicating anyone who harms women, particularly the villainous Lord Shayles. But for all his fight, his heart aches for the one woman who he has never been able to secure. Katya. When Katya and Malcolm team up in a final campaign to bring down Shayles for good, old passions and old wounds bleed to the surface. But can they keep their burning desire for each other in check? Can they put their differences aside long enough to work together, or will the fire of everything that has smoldered between them for nearly 20 years consume them? Will they learn to forgive the stings of the past and come together, at last? Please be advised: Steam level: very hot!
©2018 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer
December Heart
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At 27 years old, Mariah Travers has become what she most feared - a spinster and a perpetual adolescent in the eyes of her family and the law. But her fortunes change when her father announces that he has promised her hand in marriage to an old friend and colleague in the House of Lords. Lord Peter deVere, Earl of Dunsford, is not at all who Mariah imagined marrying, but she is willing to take a chance on the older man in order to gain the freedom that only married women are allowed. After a tragic marriage that stretched on for two decades, Peter is hesitant to marry again. But he needs an heir, or else his dastardly nephew, Lord William, will inherit everything he’s worked his entire life to build. But when he meets Mariah, sparks fly that neither of them expected. Their unlikely match stands a chance of giving each of them all the things they never realized they needed. But trouble abounds when the mine that has provided Peter with his fortune is exhausted and the search for new veins of copper begins. On top of that, Lord William isn’t about to stand by and watch his inheritance disappear. His efforts to drive a wedge between Peter and Mariah cause havoc and heartbreak at Starcross Castle, which will take an act of heroic devotion to overcome as Peter sets out to prove that true love is ageless. Please be advised - steam level - very hot! If you would like to learn about events leading up to December Heart, check out A New Life, part of the West Meets East series. And be sure to get the two accompanying novellas to December Heart, Starcross Lovers and Starcross Dreams. The Silver Foxes of Westminster Series consists of: December Heart and its accompanying novellas: Starcross Lovers Starcross Dreams August Sunrise and its accompanying novellas: Winterberry Spark Winterberry Fire May Mistakes and its accompanying novellas: Brynthwaite Promise Brynthwaite Summer
©2018 Merry Farmer (P)2019 Merry Farmer