Sarah Brady has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is The Sleeper Lies.
Finding Penelope
Summary
Thirty-three-year-old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain to avoid her oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, Dermot. When she meets Ramon, a young Spanish school teacher, she is immediately attracted to him and feels the happiness that eluded her all her life may at last be hers. However, she receives a distress call from Dermot saying he is at the mercy of Charlie Eliot, a pimp and drug dealer on the Costa. Ramon, whose mother was killed by a drug addict, tells her to have nothing to do with Charlie Eliot. Penelope must decide: Is she prepared to compromise herself with Charlie Eliot and jeopardize her chance of happiness with Ramon for the sake of her drug-addicted brother? Author's note: Apart from casting a wry glance at the phenomenon of chick-lit and treating of the role of patriarchy in a family, the novel Finding Penelope is essentially a love story marking a growth in self-realization in the protagonist Penelope Eames. It delves into the drug culture and its associated criminality in Spain (where a lot of Celtic Tiger money wound up laundered), Ireland, and the UK. The prompt for the novel was from Cervantes, and a motif may be interpreted as a sort of modern-day parallel of Don Quijote's attack on the proliferation of romance novels of that time. As 70 percent of fans are now female, I wanted to understand more of the female mindset. So I picked the brains of women of my acquaintance, including two adult daughters, and I researched contemporary women writers and books like Everywoman, and I reread with new female (or at least androgynous eyes) my well-thumbed de Beauvoir, Anna Karenina, and Portrait of a Lady. Simultaneously, I was studying the crime culture on the Costa. The result was the character Penelope Eames.
©2014 James Lawless (P)2019 James Lawless
A Lady Maid's Honor
Summary
Fans of Downtown Abbey will love the first book in this new series.
Siobhan Callahan takes the job as lady's maid to the spoiled Miss Lydia Worthington. Because of past horrors, Siobhan vows to never have a relationship with a man and is determined to focus on her career. Only, she hadn't planned on meeting the kind and handsome handyman, Michael Flanagan.
Michael Flanagan is smitten by the spirited, but wounded, Siobhan, and is determined to break through her wall of defense. They team up together to catch a thief and emotions are unveiled.
Can these two find a love richer than the wealth of their employers?
©2017 Cynthia Hickey (P)2019 Cynthia Hickey
Love over Par
Summary
Katherine O'Connor is in dire straits and the only thing she can think of to do is apply for a job as a caddy. The only problem is...women aren't yet allowed to play golf in America. She cuts her hair, dons boy clothing and gets the job. She didn't plan on falling for her handsome boss. Once her identity is revealed, complications of her deception seem overwhelming. Bradford Woodward knows something is suspicious about the frail young man in his employ, but since his brother hired the caddy, he'll honor the boy's employment and try to find something the boy knows how to do. When "Kevin" asks to play in a promotional golf tournament, Brad doesn't see the harm in it. What transpires next turns his world upside down and makes him question everything he thought to be real. Can these two repair a relationship formed under false pretenses?
©2017 Cynthia Hickey (P)2019 Cynthia Hickey
The Sleeper Lies
Summary
One window, three lies... I step forward, breathing fast. Movement. I force myself to take another step. I think about all of it - all of the deaths and all of the accidents and all of the pain. And I know what I need to do. One window... It’s March 2018, and the country is covered in snow. Roads are impassable, shops are running out of food, and official advice is to stay indoors. Marianne lives on her own and works from home, so this isn’t a problem. Until she wakes one morning in her house in the middle of nowhere and finds footprints trailing all across her garden. Half-asleep, she is at first curious. Then she realizes the footprints stop at her bedroom window, and curiosity gives way to unease. Who was looking in at her while she was asleep? Three lies... As the big freeze worsens and the stalker begins to leave disturbing mementos, Marianne’s thoughts go back two decades to the schoolyard outburst that tore her childhood apart. Old feuds resurface, and the mystery of her mother’s death is pulled back into focus. Marianne begins to see patterns - is there a link between her stalker and the true crime story she’s been obsessively researching, or does the answer lie closer to home? 24 days... In the end, 24 days is all it takes for everything to come crashing down.
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