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The Queen's Poisoner

The Kingfountain Series, Book 1

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The Queen's Poisoner

By: Jeff Wheeler
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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The first book in the million-copy, Wall Street Journal bestselling Kingfountain series from Jeff Wheeler.

King Severn Argentine’s fearsome reputation precedes him: usurper of the throne, killer of rightful heirs, ruthless punisher of traitors. Attempting to depose him, the Duke of Kiskaddon gambles...and loses. Now the duke must atone by handing over his young son, Owen, as the king’s hostage. And should his loyalty falter again, the boy will pay with his life.

Seeking allies and eluding Severn’s spies, Owen learns to survive in the court of Kingfountain. But when new evidence of his father’s betrayal threatens to seal his fate, Owen must win the vengeful king’s favor by proving his worth - through extraordinary means. And only one person can aid his desperate cause: a mysterious woman, dwelling in secrecy, who truly wields power over life, death, and destiny.

©2016 Jeff Wheeler (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy Destiny Royalty Paranormal
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Highly recommend this book. With exceptional imagery and a beautifully crafted world. Kate Rudd's performance was great, helping provide personality to every character.

Captivating start to the series.

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Great book for all ages. Easy to listen to. One for the whole family and great for all ages.

Great book with outstanding narration

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Something very different to the audio books and written books I have read previously. I will listen to more in the series.

The Queens Poisoner

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loved it. great story. narrator was easy to listen too. keeps your interest till the end.

great story

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The story itself wasn’t too bad but the narrator was terrible! I even had to look up who the person was because I was sure it was done by Siri or some other such computerised voiced. I will possibly read the next in the series but I definitely won’t be listening to the audio version.

Story ruined by narrator

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This book had me hooked from the start. It is a little cliche, but well done regardless and leaves me hungry for the next episode. Great work.

Compelling

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Love all of Jeff Wheeler's books, will be straight into the next book in the series The thief's daughter

As usual Jeff Wheeler is Brilliant

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why in the world would a story with a male MC and 90% of the characters being male be narrated by a woman. I'm sure she would have done fine with litterally any female mc book but she's pretty bad at making her voice sound masculine and comes off sounding terrible. pair that with a ton of male characters and you have this book. the story itself was great though.

Just...why?

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