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Not Quite a Wife

By: Mary Jo Putney
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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James owns a shipping fleet, half a London gaming house, and is a ruthlessly effective spymaster. He is seldom self-indulgent… except when it comes to the indomitable beauty who was once his wife. Laurel gave James her heart, until she saw him perform an act of shocking violence before her very eyes. That night she left her husband. Now, ten years later, a chance encounter turns passionate, with consequences that cannot be ignored.
They must face common enemies and a very uncommon love.©2014 Mary Jo Putney (P)2014 Recorded Books Inc Action & Adventure Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Women's Fiction Romance Marriage Heartfelt
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I love this Lost Lords series & Mary Jo Putney's works in particular. In fact one of my all time favourite books is "Never Less than a Lady". I re-read/listen to it often so gave the whole series another run through this time. Laurel would have to be the least likable h in the series however. Yes, she was young when they first married, but still quite too priggish for me 11 years later & she never really grew on me by the end. Kirkland deserved a much better mate. Some blame, I think, rests on the narrator. To my ear he puts the wrong emotion, inflections, emphases into words & phrases than is needed, which changes one's perception of the character & their responses in different scenarios. This was more glaring with the h, than the H in this book making me like her less. Some male narrators are just better at female voices & emotions than others. It is perhaps unfair to him that we can compare a maestro like Simon Preble with him, directly, in this series.

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