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A Secret Life
- Lord Hawkesbury's Players, Book 1
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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From the pen of USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author C.J. Archer comes this fun, romantic historical mystery featuring cameo appearances from William Shakespeare.
Minerva Peabody needs a man. Unfortunately she picked the wrong one. The impoverished playwright has a dream to see her plays performed on stage, but in Elizabethan England, not only are women considered the inferior sex, they simply do not write plays. Faced with rejection after rejection, she decides to take one more chance with the most desperate theater manager in London, only this time she’ll use the cover of a man. Sucked in by a pair of bright blue eyes and impressive shoulders, she chooses Blake out of the crowd, never thinking he’ll actually play an active role in her ruse. But when he does, he gets under her skin in the most alarming way.
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A Secret Life was previously published as Her Secret Desire.
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- Marguerite Merritt
- 22-06-2023
disappointed
I'm disappointed because the books I have heard of C J Archer's have not been so explicit. No need for it in my view
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- Catherine
- 04-12-2023
Very different and fantastic
I found the storyline very different to what she normally writes. I really enjoyed it. It had all of those things that good books have sex Intrigue suspense, disappointment, and a great storyline. I loved it. I’d hate to be a woman back in those times.
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