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  • A Captain for Caroline Gray

  • The Proper Romance Regency Series, Book 4
  • By: Julie Wright
  • Narrated by: Heather Wilds
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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A Captain for Caroline Gray

By: Julie Wright
Narrated by: Heather Wilds
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Publisher's Summary

Regency London. Caroline Gray’s third season in London society ends as badly as her first two - no marriage proposal, no suitor, not even a glimmer of an interested prospect. She suspects it’s because she is far too quick to speak her mind to men who are put off by her forthright opinions, her eager intellect backed by a formal education, and her unconventional ideas about the future. She is far more daring than demure to suit the taste of her class. Besides, Caroline thinks there will always be next season to find a husband.

However, her family’s dwindling income leaves Caroline with only one choice to secure her future: a one-way ticket to sail with the fishing fleet to India, where the son of a family friend waits. If the match doesn’t work, Caroline cannot return home.

Captain Thomas Scott loves the thrill of the open sea, and as commander of one of the ships of the fishing feet, he ferries scores of young English girls to the shores of India to find husbands. The voyages pay well, but he struggles to understand why families would allow young women to be matched with total strangers so far away.

The trips have always been routine and uneventful - until this trip’s first night’s dinner with one Miss Caroline Gray. She engages in a lively political conversation, presenting opposing viewpoints to the conventionally opinionated gentlemen at her table. Captain Scott is secretly amused and delighted at her boldness, not to mention quite drawn to her beauty.

The rest of the passengers are shocked by her behavior, and Caroline finds herself an outcast, suffering harsh judgments from the other passengers. However, she finds an unlikely ally in Captain Scott, which quickly draws them closer.

Both know an arranged marriage awaits Caroline at the end of their voyage, yet the attraction between them is undeniable. Caroline will have to decide if she will honor her mother’s wishes and marry a man in India whom she has never met - thus securing a future for her and her mother - or be brave enough to throw convention to the wind and commit to love a sea captain. He may be enchanted by her bold and unconventional ways, but will his love and admiration last?

©2021 Julie Wright (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

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I enjoyed this book but would’ve preferred the writing to have been changed more to suit audio rather than all as 3rd person/ narration.

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A bit too cringeworthy

I listened to this with my elderly mum as it was a clean romance and we like a bit of Regency era pomp from time to time. However, this story didn’t quite hit the mark for us. There were a few good parts and the usual anxt due to misunderstandings but the many cringeworthy lines interspersed to make sure we understood that touches, looks or word spoken set the characters hearts racing or electrified their skin, etc. just seemed a bit forced. There was a point in time where we nearly stopped listening but we did persist to the end. I would say it is just not up to the standard of the well written contemporary romance books I have listened to from the same author.

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