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The Banished Bride

Intrepid Heroines, Book 1

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The Banished Bride

By: Andrea Pickens
Narrated by: Amanda Benzecry
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Summary

A drunken laugh, a roll of the dice... and Aurora Sprague finds herself a child bride, married in haste to a young man she's never met to settle her father's gaming debt. Moments after the ceremony, the new groom gallops off to the army and Aurora is banished to a remote estate, married in name only.

Years later, Alex Fenimore, now a top intelligence officer, is on a secret mission when a fiery young lady helps him escape an attack.

He has no idea of her real identity—or that the sparks of desire between them are about to ignite a dangerous passion...

©2002 Andrea Pickens (P)2025 Andrea Pickens Historical Historical Fiction Regency Women's Fiction
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Lovely story destroyed by super slow narration. Increase the speed to make it possible to listen to this lovely story.

Terrible narration.

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An enjoyable and humourous read with enough complexity and depth to keep my interest. Both hero and heroine had flaws, but were redeemable and very likeable.

The narrator's speech was too slow and ponderous but still perfectly enunciated except for the pronunciation of wandering as wondering. (Ironically, due to the vagueries of the English language these words are already not pronounced as they are spelt.) When narrating the story her speech flowed naturally, but for the characters, especially Alex, it was too stilted. Her characterisations were very good however. Speeding it up to 1.15x improved it and made it so I barely noticed.

Great story. Narration needs improvement but speeding it up helped.

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Good story and narration but the pet name that Alex calls Aurora, “sweeting” is cringe AF.

Good story

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