Jacqueline de Boer has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Clogs and Shawls.
Enchanted by Moonlight
Summary
Sometimes, the romance of a lifetime starts with one perfect night. It’s the year 1885, and the world has just begun giving up its ancient secrets. Miss Charlotte Blakely is a librarian in Rome. She’s researching evidence of the fabled Veil of Veronica, but her time abroad is drawing to a close. Her viscount father is dying and has called his children home, yet a chance encounter with a stranger one balmy night might change her direction. Mr. Everett Desmond is the English ambassador to Rome. He’s dashing and would have been daring had he gone down a different path, but being jilted at the altar sent him far from England and sordid memories. Now, life has grown staid and boring. When he literally crashes into a pretty lady on the street, he’s intrigued enough to further an acquaintance. Desire flares after a couple of moonlit strolls, and a kiss at the Trevi fountain irrevocably changes both of their lives. Budding romance blooms beneath the heat, and they find themselves enchanted enough to land into potential scandal. Is it a love to last a lifetime, or is it merely a moonlight indiscretion? Only they can decide what they truly want for the future.
©2020 Sandra Sookoo (P)2020 Sandra Sookoo
Madame Koska & the Imperial Brooch
Summary
Meet Madame Koska - a fabulous haute couture designer and the owner of a new atelier in 1920’s London - who has a knack at solving crimes that simply baffle the police. When a priceless brooch disappears from a museum in Russia, Madame Koska is suddenly drawn into the mystery. But who is Madame Koska? And what does the missing jewel have to do with her? Find out in her first adventure!
©2017 Ilil Arbel & BHC Press (P)2020 Ilil Arbel & BHC Press
Ladies Prefer Adventure
Summary
Fulfilling a lifetime mission is much more fun when romance is woven into the adventure. The honorable Charlotte Blakely is closing in on the actual location of the Veil of Veronica, carrying on her beloved late grandfather’s quest. Satisfying his last wish is all she’s ever wanted from life...until the possibility of a courtship with the handsome English ambassador to Rome made itself known. But does love mean giving up her hard-won independence? Mr. Everett Desmond spends far too much time behind a desk and entertaining dignitaries. He thought that was what he wanted from life...until an intriguing lady gave him a taste of adventure. But treasure-hunting comes at a price, and thanks to a failed engagement, he’s leery of romance. Balancing each leg of the quest with the heat and passion simmering between them keeps Charlotte and Everett on the razor’s edge. When danger and death collide with the joy of adventure, truths they’ve denied themselves come into sharp focus. But with a bit of faith, they may discover a treasure far more priceless than a religious relic in their hands.
©2020 Sandra Sookoo (P)2020 Sandra Sookoo
Clogs and Shawls
Summary
In this revealing family memoir, best-selling author Ann Chamberlin explores the history of her Mormon grandmother Frances Lyda and her seven sisters who grew up desperately poor in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the early years of the 20th century. Chamberlin’s narrative follows these eight daughters of Mary Jane Jones and Ralph Robinson Whitaker, a remarkably gifted yet poor and blind piano tuner. Most of the girls were forced by necessity to abandon school at age 12 and find work in terrible conditions at a local factory. When their mother converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1901, she became the backbone of the Mormon community in Yorkshire. Her daughters followed their mother into her faith, while navigating their own, sometimes tragic, ways into adulthood, family, and the world beyond industrial England. Though they were exploited and undereducated, the girls maintained a steadfast belief in a brighter future for the Mormon faithful, a mind-set that, despite their many differences, forged an unshakable togetherness between them. All gifted and strong individuals in their own right, many of the Whitaker sisters overcame long odds and incredible hardships to carry on and prosper in Salt Lake City. Chamberlin interviewed her grandmother and six of her surviving great-aunts for Clogs and Shawls, the relatives who had made their way to Mormon Zion. She weaves novelistic passages with their first-person narratives to create a singular work of oral immigrant family history that is both lively and revealing.
©2020 University of Utah Press (P)2020 University of Utah Press