Marian Hussey has narrated 130 audiobooks on Listento.it by 31 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 190 ratings. The most-rated is The Convent's Secret.
Accidentally Married to the Billionaire, Part 2
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This is book two. Marj has big decisions to make about her life. Should she put everything on hold for a relationship that's not real? As she continues with the charade, she starts to develop feelings for Brandon. But does he feel the same way? Or does he just need a bride so he can get his hands on his big, fat inheritance?
©2016 Sierra Rose (P)2016 Sierra Rose
Salt Redux: Sequel to Salt Bride
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2013 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Medal Winner Jane and Salt-four years of happily ever after...Sir Antony Templestowe-four years of exile...Lady Caroline-four years of heartache... Diana St. John-four years plotting revenge...The time has come... How does a brother cope with life knowing his sister is a murderess? How can a nobleman have the life he has always wanted when a lurking evil consumes his thoughts and haunts his dreams? What will it take for good to triumph over evil? For listeners who enjoyed Salt Bride, the story continues...Salt Hendon series, Book 2 Character-driven romantic suspense. Non explicit (mild sensuality).
©2013 Lucinda Brant (P)2014 Lucinda Brant
Eternal Destiny
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Sarah is forced to face the reality of what it means to be an Immortal. Her powers are unstable and Victor must guide her through the process. Sarah also learns King Taggert is slowing dying and Victor will soon take over his title as 'King of the Immortals'. But a dangerous adversary will stop at nothing to win, and Sarah knows Ethano must be stopped at all costs. Sarah's plan of marrying Victor to obtain the ruby ring is starting to backfire as she starts to develop genuine feelings for her warrior king. While trying to fight the attraction she feels toward her immortal husband, she fights to save the ones she loves.
©2012 Chrissy Peebles (P)2013 Chrissy Peebles
Moonstruck Madness
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She's one thing by day, something else altogether by night.... After escaping the slaughter of her clan at a young age, Scottish noblewoman Sabrina Verrick provides for her siblings by living a double life, until the night she encounters the Duke, and her secret and all she holds dear is threatened.... He's so disillusioned, he's completely vulnerable.... With his inheritance at stake, Lucien, Duke of Camareigh, sets a trap for the Scottish beauty with the piercing violet eyes, never imagining what will happen when the trap is sprung.... As their lives become irreversibly entangled, Lucien and Sabrina become each other's biggest threat, as well as their only salvation....
©1979, 2011 Laurie McBain (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Three Evesham Daughters: Books 1-3
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The complete collection of the Evesham Daughters series: Book one: The Cold Earl’s Bride Marcus St. John, the merciless Earl of Grandover, is focused on one thing: seeking revenge on the men who wish for his downfall. He’s close to finding the mastermind behind his demise...until he’s forced to marry a woman who appears to be acting as an instrument of his enemy. She is smart and beautiful and, somehow, she touches his innermost being in a way that had long since been forgotten. Has he opened his house and his heart to his undoing? Book two: No Lord Desired Lady Felicity has a frightening problem to solve. She is being blackmailed. She cannot confide in anyone else but him - a masked stranger known as "the Priest", who is the fiercest fighter in London. Nobody has ever seen his face. When she asks for help, he decides to stand by her side and becomes her closest ally. But how will Lady Felicity react when she finds out who is hiding behind his black mask? Book three: An Unkissed Lady When Lady Rose Evesham decides that it’s about time for her first kiss, she designs a bold and promising strategy to not only be kissed, but also be happily married. The man who receives the invitation appears and kisses her in the darkness of the enchanted night. But then, she realizes something is not quite right. Nothing about his manner reflects the daring gentleman of that night. Or, is his change in behavior caused by the gloomy Marquess of Cavanaugh, whom Rose despises from the bottom of her heart and who happens to be the only witness to their rendezvous? A sweet, traditional regency romance collection with a dash of suspense. If you like strong heroes, touching moments, and surprising fortunes, then this delightful trilogy will keep you listening deep into the night. Listen to the Evesham Daughters trilogy to be swept off your feet today!
©2020 Audrey Ashwood (P)2020 Audrey Ashwood
Never Say Never to an Earl
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A USA Today best seller. A wallflower who guards her secrets Miss Polly Kent has no illusions about finding love. Not only is she a wallflower, but her freakish ability to read others’ emotions has led to devastating rejection, time and again. When it comes to her future, she knows that a marriage of convenience, one in which she can keep her secret affliction hidden, is the only safe choice. Yet, when fate throws her into the path of the ton’s wildest rake, she discovers that desire can jeopardize the most carefully laid plans. A rake who makes no apologies for his past Sinjin Pelham, the Earl of Revelstoke and heir to a duke, has a reputation darker than London’s fog. His exploits have made him the envy of men and the desire of women, but behind his wild and jaded façade lies a painful secret. He knows that no woman can love the devil inside him, yet when he is accused of a ghastly crime, the only one who stands by him is a beautiful virgin - one whose wanton innocence makes him long for the one thing he cannot have. When good and wicked make perfect A marriage that begins with smoldering passion soon deepens into something more. All the while, a dangerous enemy lurks, waiting to strike. As Sinjin and Polly untangle the threads of mystery to clear his name, they must confront their greatest fears, risking all for their love and their very lives. Heart of Enquiry series, now available in audio!
©2016 Grace Callaway (P)2020 Grace Callaway
A Bride for the Viscount's Cold Son
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A poor village orphan. An unexpected fortune. Can she overcome her humble beginnings to find true love? Regency London. Lavinia Talridge is heartbroken. After the premature death of her mother, young Lavinia is left destitute with no money and no family. Until, in a twist of fate, she discovers that she is wealthy. Before she can believe her new life of privilege is true, Lavinia has an arranged marriage to a handsome gentleman and a chance at love. But when the Viscount’s son acts coldly toward her, Lavinia assumes her lower-class background is to blame. Afraid to go through with the potentially joyless marriage, can the young woman find a lifetime worth of love? A clean and wholesome regency romance with a dash of suspense. If you like authentic women, romantic moments, and surprising fortunes, then you’ll love this delightful love story.
©2019 Audrey Ashwood (P)2019 Audrey Ashwood
The Duke Identity
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Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award Finalist He's a policeman on a hunt for justice. She's a proud daughter of the London criminal underworld. Danger brings them together...and desire binds them in this steamy enemies to lovers romance. Shattered by betrayal, former scholar Harry Kent has made a new life for himself as a policeman. Sent on a dangerous covert mission, he must protect a clever and wicked beauty who specializes in disguises and mischief. She stands for everything he scorns - and seduces him with every look of her innocent eyes.... A princess of London's criminal underworld, Tessa Todd wants to defend her family against cutthroat enemies. Her powerful grandfather, however, insists upon keeping her under lock and key. When she is assigned a stoic and damnably handsome new bodyguard, she resists his dominant ways - and a passionate war of wills begins.... Thrown together by crisis, Harry and Tessa will test the bounds of desire, loyalty, and trust. On the run from their foes and from their own hearts, they must find salvation in each other - before time runs out. Grace's books feature hot historical romance, fun and feel-good happily ever afters, and exciting mystery and adventure. All of her books are standalones, which can also be enjoyed as part of her interconnected series. Available on Audio: Game of Dukes (Hot Victorian romance) The Duke Identity Enter the Duke Heart of Enquiry (Hot Regency romance) The Duke Who Knew Too Much M is for Marquess The Lady Who Came in from the Cold The Viscount Always Knocks Twice Never Say Never to an Earl The Gentleman Who Loved Me Mayhem in Mayfair (Hot Regency romance) Her Husband's Harlot Her Wanton Wager Her Prodigal Passion Her Protector's Pleasure
©2018 Grace Callaway (P)2020 Grace Callaway
Lord of Temptation
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Be careful what you wish for.... When Lord Hawkridge inherits a penniless marquessate, he must abandon his courtship of the lowborn girl he loves. Years later, she rises from commoner to textiles heiress. Hawk has never banished her from his heart. Here's their chance to share his home! But how can he convince a woman whose trust he destroyed that he desires her far more than her money? Faith Digby's chaotic world is too full to bother with men. She controls half a boarding school, one life-endangering secret, and two recently gentrified parents. There's no time for the old flame roaring back into her life. Not when admitting she still loves him would imperil everything and everyone she holds dear.... In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series by USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Erica Ridley, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses.... Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure. Lord of Chance Lord of Pleasure Lord of Night Lord of Temptation Lord of Secrets Lord of Vice
©2018 Erica Ridley (P)2018 Erica Ridley
The Viscount Always Knocks Twice
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National Reader's Choice Awards finalist Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense finalist A sizzling enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a hoyden who falls in love with her best friend's brother and a viscount whose buttoned-up exterior hides his hot-blooded nature. All wrapped up in an exciting regency house party whodunnit! A hoyden’s prejudice Spirited and unconventional, Miss Violet Kent has landed in hot water time and again due to her impulsive ways. Her latest fiasco involves Richard Murray, Viscount Carlisle, her friend Wickham's older brother. She and Carlisle hate each other on sight, their animosity culminating in a mortifying accident. Ashamed and inflamed by their encounter, she wants to stay far away from the stuffed shirt but, instead, finds herself trapped with him at a secluded and intimate house party. A gentleman’s pride A man of honor, Richard Murray, Viscount Carlisle, has always protected his brother Wickham, whose latest trouble involves a debt to a cutthroat. To survive, Wick must marry an heiress; instead, he’s distracted by that improper hoyden Violet Kent. As Richard strives to extricate his brother from Violet’s wiles, the last thing he expects is to find himself ensnared by passion. When murder leads to love Sparks fly when Violet and Richard encounter each other in dark corners and secret passageways. Yet, their forbidden passion and blossoming romance are not the only adventures afoot. For, a guest is soon discovered dead, and Violet and Richard must join forces to solve the mystery and protect their loved ones...before the murderer strikes again.
©2016 Grace Callaway (P)2020 Grace Callaway
Reforming Lord Neil: A Regency Romance
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An arrogant lord cut off by his family. A penniless widow in desperate need. In their reduced circumstances, can love save them both? Lord Neil Duncan, third son of the Marquess of Alderton, finally angers his father enough to be cut off from the family. Neil believes it is only a matter of time before he is reinstated, but time is passing slowly and he needs to eat. His so-called friends have abandoned him, no one else trusts him, and it is not until he comes upon a young widow that he finds someone who needs his help as badly as he needs hers. Teresa Clapham has been without a husband's provision and protection for over a year. Supporting her mother and daughter on the pittance her brother-in-law provides has required her to stretch every farthing. When Lord Neil arrives at her doorstep proposing he work for her to earn his keep, she sees possibility in the man everyone else has deemed an arrogant good-for-nothing. As Lord Neil works for the first time in his life, Teresa sees in him a tender heart long repressed by his family's expectations - a heart that causes her own to open once more. But her brother-in-law John Clapham is less charmed by Teresa’s new servant. When Lord Neil discovers the secret Mr. Clapham has been keeping, he must decide whether to embrace the man Teresa believes him to be, or fall back on the privileged lifestyle he’s always known.
©2020 Sally Britton (P)2020 Sally Britton
Lord of Night
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Unlike proper debutantes, Miss Dahlia Grenville is secretly Robin Hood in a bonnet. Her home for wayward girls has too many dependents and not enough donations. But just as she's about to pull off the heist of the Season, she tumbles straight into the arms of the handsome detective who has sworn to deliver Mayfair's mysterious thief straight to the gallows. Highly principled Bow Street runner Simon Spaulding's world is black and white. There's no mastermind too clever, no criminal alive who can escape the hangman. Until he realizes the delightful young lady he's been courting is a liar and a thief. Suddenly, his career - and his heart - are in peril. How can he bring her to justice when it means losing her forever? In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, sigh-worthy regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
©2017 Erica Ridley (P)2017 Erica Ridley
Lord of Pleasure
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Nondescript "good girl" Miss Camellia Grenville only ever opens her mouth when forced to sing at her family's musicales. That is, until the night she infiltrates the ton's most scandalous masquerade ball on behalf of her sister, and finds herself in the arms - and the bed - of the one man she'd sworn to hate. Irresistibly arrogant and unapologetically sensuous, infamous rake Lord Wainwright always gets his way. When he accepts a wager to turn his rakish image respectable in just 40 days, he never anticipates falling for an anonymous masked lover...or that discovering her identity would destroy them both. In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, Cinderella stories aren't just for princesses... Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
©2017 Erica Ridley (P)2017 Erica Ridley
The Two Hearts of Eliza Bloom
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Meet Eliza Bloom. She likes to live life by the rules: long, blue skirt on Thursdays; dinner with mother on Fridays; and if someone tells you a Valentine should be anonymous, give your new husband a blank card. Nothing is out of place in her ordered life....
But last night, her teenage daughter found something in a hidden shoebox that no one was supposed to see and started asking questions...questions that might just change everything in Eliza’s carefully constructed world.
Join Eliza as she tells you how to run away with the love of your life (quite fast actually, as your family are coming after you), how to make your grandfather happy (this might involve a little bit of lying), how to let someone you love go (actually, this never gets easier), and how (now, this is a bad idea) to keep secrets from your new husband.
The only way to truly live is to learn how to open your heart.
An uplifting and heartbreaking novel about finding yourself, perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Keeper of Lost Things, and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.
©2018 Beth Miller (P)2019 Bookouture
Lord of Secrets
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Some secrets should never be unveiled....
Heath Grenville is the problem-solver for London's elite. Unmask the devious cretin skewering the ton with audacious caricatures? With pleasure. His success should keep the powerful happy. But when his work leads him to a young lady outside his class, surely he won’t do anything so scandalous as to fall in love....
By day, Miss Eleanora Winfield is a proper, unremarkable paid companion. By night, Nora’s skillful hands sketch the infamous penny caricatures rocking high society. Nora desperately needs the money...and her anonymity. But how can she keep them both when she’s fallen for the one man whose livelihood and reputation requires him to expose her?
In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series by USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Erica Ridley, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses.... Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
Lord of Chance
Lord of Pleasure
Lord of Night
Lord of Temptation
Lord of Secrets
Lord of Vice
©2018 Erica Ridley (P)2018 Erica Ridley
Manners and Monsters Collection
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Hannah Miles navigates the etiquette of monster hunting through the parlours of a magical Regency England. This collection contains: 1. Manners and Monsters Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend’s engagement party pulls her from the shadows. Hannah must work with the obnoxious Viscount Wycliff to find the murderer before the season is ruined. 2. Galvanism and Ghouls A new Unnatural horror is about to rattle Hannah Miles' quiet existence, and it's not the short-tempered viscount prowling the hallways of her home. Can Hannah and Wycliff find the monster - and will it be the hand that wields the scalpel, or the creature hiding in the dark? 3. Gossip and Gorgons The newly married Lord and Lady Wycliff are cordially invited to a house party - to be mocked and ridiculed as entertainment. But someone among the house guests has murder on their mind. The newlyweds need to determine who, as guests are immortalised is stone...
©2020 Tilly Wallace (P)2021 Ribbonwood Press
The Duke of Desire
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Ten years ago, Ivy Breckenridge's life was ruined. She had to reinvent herself, and now, after painstakingly making her own way in the world, she's nearly forgotten the dreams of home and family she'd once nurtured. Until one man peers into her soul and awakens every one of her hidden desires. But no matter how good he makes her feel, she can't trust him - alone by choice is better than alone by necessity.
With a notorious reputation for training married women in the art of passion, Sebastian Westgate, Duke of Clare, is reviled by some and celebrated by others. He doesn't allow anyone close enough to see past his charming exterior. When Ivy uncovers the man beneath, the seducer is suddenly the seduced. Enraptured by her mind and spirit, he wants more but revealing his darkest secrets is a price he won't pay.
©2017 Darcy Burke (P)2017 Darcy Burke
The Duke of Distraction
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After witnessing how love embittered his uncle and broke his father, Felix Havers, Earl of Ware vows never to love. He conceals his emotions behind a wall of wit and charm, and is celebrated as the master of entertainments - parties, picnics, races. When his best friend’s wallflower sister needs to find a husband, he promises to make her the toast of London...without losing his heart. Miss Sarah Colton has given up on the pursuit of marriage. When her parents learn she intends to open a millinery shop, they give her an ultimatum: choose a husband or they’ll do it for her. She accepts Felix’s help, never imagining their scheme will ignite a mutual attraction neither of them dare indulge. But when tragedy strikes, can they heal each other or will the demons of Felix’s past consume them both?
©2019 Darcy Burke (P)2019 Darcy Burke
The Duke of Deception
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After five years on the Marriage Mart, Miss Aquilla Knox is ready for spinsterhood until a benefactress steps in to help her secure a husband. Only Aquilla doesn't actually want to marry - her failure is entirely on purpose. When the earl she's nicknamed the Duke of Deception sets his sights on her, she refuses to be drawn in by her attraction to him. If there's one thing she knows, it's that a gentleman is never what he seems.
Edward Bishop, Earl of Sutton, has a reputation for courting young misses and dropping them without a second thought. This has earned him a reputation for deceit, a description he can't refute because he does in fact, harbor secrets and will do anything - deceive anyone - to ensure they don't come to light. As he comes to know the charming Miss Knox, his resolve is tested. However, trust comes at a price and Ned won't pay with his heart.
©2016 Darcy Burke (P)2017 Darcy Burke
The Duke of Kisses
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Frances Snowden can hardly believe her good fortune when she’s whisked away from her boring life by her sister who is now a duchess. Instead of becoming the third wife of her parents’ stuffy neighbor, she can be anything she wants: a doting aunt to her newborn niece, a debutante in London, or even an independent spinster. But when she meets and kisses a mysterious man on a walk in the countryside, she knows exactly what she desires - him.
David Langley, Earl of St. Ives, is resigned to marrying the dull woman his parents chose when he was a child. His future is suddenly, and happily, diverted when he encounters a captivating young woman who shows him everything he’s been missing.
Ready to embark on a blissful life together, a long-buried feud between their families makes their marriage impossible. Nothing is more important than duty and family, but can he turn his back on love?
©2018 Darcy Burke (P)2019 Darcy Burke