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  • By: Mimi Matthews
  • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
  • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (52 ratings)

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By: Mimi Matthews
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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"Matthews has a knack for creating slow-building chemistry and an intriguing plot with a social history twist." -Library Journal  

She wanted sanctuary...  

Helena Reynolds will do anything to escape her life in London, even if that means traveling to a remote cliffside estate on the North Devon coast and marrying a complete stranger. But Greyfriar's Abbey isn't the sort of refuge she imagined. And ex-army captain Justin Thornhill - though he may be tall, dark, and devastatingly handsome - is anything but a romantic hero.  

He needed redemption...  

Justin has spent the last two decades making his fortune, settling scores, and suffering a prolonged period of torture in an Indian prison. Now, he needs someone to smooth the way for him with the villagers. Someone to manage his household - and warm his bed on occasion. What he needs, in short, is a wife and a matrimonial advertisement seems the perfect way to acquire one. Their marriage was meant to be a business arrangement and nothing more. A dispassionate union free from the entanglements of love and affection. But when Helena's past threatens, will Justin's burgeoning feelings for his new bride compel him to come to her rescue? Or will dark secrets of his own force him to let her go?

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I really liked that it was a lovely story of building friendship & love & a relationship, and no sex. I liked that it stayed clean. Very refreshing

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Light or Dark I could not tell; definitely sentimental

Beautifully performed but the plot just does not bear out the pace. At times it was tedious to the point of needing to skip ahead, but if you appreciate a steady paced historical romance with two low-esteemed miscommunicating protagonists, this audiobook with its vivid settings will suit. It has excellent sexual tension, melancholia and misfits with the inevitable happy ending.

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Wonderful Story, but PG

I stumbled across this and I really enjoyed the story. The only thing it lacked was a sex scene. It didn't need to be lengthy or graffic, but it irritates me when an entire novel is filled with sexual tension and then there is zero sex.
If I'd known it was going to be PG rated I might not have been so disappointed.
Regardless or all that, I've given 4/5 because the story was well written and I liked the characters. Narrator gave an excellent performance.

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One of the best books

It was a dramatic love story, I couldn't stop listening. I was glad not to hear all that in depth going sex which can be sickening.
In the beginning it was a bit too much repetitive, but not so much as to get annoyed. I thought it was the best story I heard or read for a long time.
The reading was very well performed.

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