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  • The Winter Duchess

  • A Duchess for All Seasons Series, Book 1
  • By: Jillian Eaton
  • Narrated by: Mary Sarah
  • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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The Winter Duchess

By: Jillian Eaton
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
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Their wedding was the event of the season... 

A shy wallflower, Caroline hasn't the faintest idea why the Duke of Readington chose her to be his bride. She could ask, but that would mean speaking to him...and truth be told, she'd rather have a conversation with the devil. Her new husband may be one of the most powerful men in all of England - not to mention the handsomest - but he's also cruel, callous, and has a heart colder than ice. 

But it was never meant to be a love match...

Eric married Caroline for one simple reason: he wasn't in love with her. Having seen firsthand how love can bring a man to his knees, he's determined not to make the same mistakes his father did. Which is why he's going to spend just enough time with his new bride to assure himself of an heir before he leaves her and returns to London. At least that was the plan until a winter storm leaves them stranded. Now every time Eric turns around he finds himself stumbling over the wife he never wanted...but is slowly beginning to desire....or was it? 

As cold winds howl outside the manor, inside of it a duke's heart is finally starting to melt as he finds himself falling for the one woman he was never supposed to love...but can she love him in return? 

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Jillian Eaton (P)2018 Tantor

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Tantor Media employs bad reader again

Mary Sarah once again ruins a book with her excruciating failure of an English accent. The funniest thing is that although she tortures every vowel to give it her idea of posh English, she slips up every time by pronouncing "duke" as "dook", the classic American telltale.

The story itself is adequate, but wrongheaded in many places. One example is the heroine insisting her personal maid address her by her first name, because she feels in need of a friend. As she then proceeds to have a standard employer-servant relationship with the maid, it shows the heroine as shallow and selfish, seeking comfort by believing herself liberal whilst making the maid risk her job and feel uncomfortable. On a larger scale, the heroine's expectation of a love match in spite of having contracted a marriage of convenience is not true to the period, or sensible even in the fluffy context of the book.

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Well written, nice little story. Easy to listen to which makes the time go past nicely.

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