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  • Temptation and Surrender

  • Cynster, Book 16
  • By: Stephanie Laurens
  • Narrated by: Roz Landor
  • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

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Temptation and Surrender

By: Stephanie Laurens
Narrated by: Roz Landor
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Summary

Handsome, wealthy, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has everything a gentleman needs to enjoy London society to the fullest...and he has. He's played cards until dawn, flirted with eligible young ladies, and made love to some ineligible ones.

But now he's restless and bored with the mindless frivolity and careless pleasure, so it's with a sense of relief that he takes up the reins of his family's estate in rural Devon. His most pressing need is to hire a new manager for the inn; the center of village life. Such a small task, yet he discovers few decent applicants are willing to live in a quiet country backwater.

Then genteel but impoverished Miss Emily Beauregard applies for the position. Jonas's initial response is an emphatic "no!" Ladies, especially one as attractive as Emily, belong in the ballroom or the bedroom, not running an inn. But with no alternatives, he grudgingly allows Emily to try, and she rapidly proves herself worthy, resurrecting the inn with tact and skill.

But Emily has a secret. It's not only the need to provide for herself and her orphaned siblings that has brought her to Devon. She's surreptitiously searching for a family treasure hidden in the village, the only clues to its location a cryptic rhyme handed down through the generations. Emily is determined to solve the puzzle, find the treasure, and reinstate her family to its rightful place in society.

But Em hasn't bargained on Jonas. His experience is temptation, his attentions irresistible, and he's determined to aid her in her quest. He eventually persuades her to trust him, and together they unravel the clues. But someone else is watching, waiting, and once the family legacy is unearthed, the villain strikes, threatening Em, her family, and the love she and Jonas have discovered in each other's arms.

©2009 Savdek Management Proprietory Ltd. (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
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Editor reviews

At first sounding prim and proper, like the British gentry she depicts in this Regency romance, Rosalyn Landor quickly shows why she's an award-winning narrator. She convincingly portrays terrified 10-year-old girls, ardent lovers, nefarious kidnappers, and disgruntled relatives. As the passion between innkeeper Emily Beauregard and gentleman Jonas Tallent threatens to boil over, Landor's even pacing serves to increase the anticipation. Landor usually brings just the right tone to each character's voice and delivers an overall impressive performance.

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A classic Stephanie Laurens

This is another book in the Cynster series and follows a familiar pattern where the hero and heroine are forced to spend time together to solve a mystery, while helped (or hindered) appropriately by their families and friends. This is standard fare by this author and as usual includes explicit sex as part of the story. If you like Laurens's style you'll like this book as well.

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annoying reader!!!!!

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I have to say, listening to this narrator makes you basically want to kill your self. He definitely drones and uses near enough the same voice for his male characters.
Change the narrator and you might be able to get past the first hour of listening

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