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The Greatest Challenge of Them All
- The Devil’s Brood Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Series: Cynster Next Generation Series, Book 6, The Devil's Brood, Book 3
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Lord Drake Varisey, Marquess of Winchelsea, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Wolverstone, must foil a plot that threatens to shake the foundations of the realm, but the very last lady - nay, noblewoman - he needs assisting him is Lady Louisa Cynster, known throughout the ton as Lady Wild.
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Unable to deny Louisa's abilities or the value of her assistance and powerless to curb her willfulness, Drake is forced to grit his teeth and acquiesce to her sticking by his side if only to ensure her safety. But all too soon, his true feelings for her surface sufficiently for her, perspicacious as she is, to see through his denials, which she then interprets as a challenge.
Even while they gather information, tease out clues, increasingly desperately search for the missing gunpowder, and doggedly pursue the killer responsible for an ever-escalating tally of dead men, thrown together through the hours, he and she learn to trust and appreciate each other. And fed by constant exposure - and blatantly encouraged by her - their desires and hungers swell and grow....
As the barriers between them crumble, the attraction he has for so long restrained burgeons and balloons until, goaded by her near death, it erupts, and he seizes her - only to be seized in return.
Linked irrevocably, and with their wills melded and merged by passion's fire, with time running out and the evil mastermind's deadline looming, together they focus their considerable talents and make one last push to learn the critical truths - to find the gunpowder and unmask the villain behind this far-reaching plot.
Only to discover that they have significantly less time than they'd thought, that the villain's target is even more crucially fundamental to the realm than they'd imagined, and that it's going to take all that Drake is - as well as all that Louisa as Lady Wild can bring to bear - to defuse the threat, capture the villain, and make all safe and right again.
As they race to the ultimate confrontation, the future of all England rests on their shoulders.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-07-2019
The mystery!
Drake and Louise are swept together in an espionage with her brothers Sebastian and Michael St Ives, Deveils brood, who had help from Anoria Chillingworth and Cleo Hendon. All wealthy elite families. The story did drag on for a long while repeating the work behind the scenes to find ten missing barrels of gunpowder. The final chapters did come to a good conclusion. The audio was well read by Matthew. Brenher.
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- MickeyMarie
- 14-02-2018
Please stop this man from evering ruining another
Mathew should never be allowed to read another romance novel and ruining an otherwise good book. I feel sorry for Stephanie Laurens that she has been forced to submit her work to such an unskilled man
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- Reflective Practice
- 01-11-2019
Don't like prounciation of Dalziel
Normally I like Matthew Brenher as a narrator, but I HATE the change in the pronunciation of "Dalziel." Granted that's my only complaint but I think new narrators for a series should listen to those earlier in the series. I frankly don't care which pronounciaton is correct, after many books of one, another extremely different is unacceptable to me.
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- Tanja Schleich
- 23-10-2017
Good story with some hick ups
I didn't like that were recycling parts of the recording during the story. I can't be the only one that noticed the narrator's inflection/intonation changed from one second to the other during the story when part of the story were used at an earlier moment in the storyline.
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- Taiwo Akinyemi
- 09-09-2019
engaging
loved it. reveitting story line. I couldn't stop listening and the accuracy of English traditions and history is amazing
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- Barb
- 16-03-2019
excellent !!
loved it. it is worth the amount of time to listen to this audio book.
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- Roberta
- 11-12-2018
Great story.
I enjoyed the trilogy. It couldn't be done any other way. Worth my time too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-05-2018
Loved the story. Disliked the narrator.
Mr. Brenher does not do women's voices well, and his female characters sound strident. I was also disappointed in his pronunciation of many Regency terms. Finally, he failed to provide a French accent for the series' grand dame, Helena Dowager Duchess of St. Ives.
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- Maria
- 23-07-2017
Out with the old in with the new
With that title she should had stated with the old generation, their stories, were better crafted, these 3 stories could probably been said with one, book, I owned all the other books from the old generation and even the narrator Simon Prebble was better and not necessarily that Mathew was horrible, but his infliction with the words are not there he is just flat, where there should be happy sound, or angry, or sad there is just not infliction on his word but just flat, I guess the story was ok but it was redundant and repetitive and with a flat narrator it just made it worse at least for this particular story and Mathew is a decent narrator but with this material not so sure, save your audible credit, but the paperback, and then donated to a lib ear you, hopefully the others will be better.
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- A.
- 18-07-2017
Great series
Liked the way the characters solved the mystery. Also that the men respected women's opinions and capabilities.
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- Kindle Customer Cozy mystery addict
- 18-07-2017
The Greatist Author of Them All?
If not, then certainly in that rare air group of the finest Romance writers. This story is one of her finest and I look forward to reading how the three couples and their houses survive yet another generation when three little ones arrive on the scene here weeks or days to come. I'm on auto order with this author. Are you?
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