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Melissa Brayden
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The truth has many shades.
Lucy Danaher was born into a life of privilege and has always enjoyed the view from the top. She spends her days running Global NewsWire, a Fortune 500 company, and her nights at all the trendy San Diego hot spots. When the Union-Tribune decides to run a feature story on her company, Lucy's thrilled to oblige with an interview. But when the reporter arrives, it turns out the story she's writing is anything but flattering. The fact that she's irritatingly gorgeous only adds salt to the wound.
Kristin James loves her job, and as a committed journalist will go out of her way to tell the most balanced story possible - even if it means going up against Lucy Danaher, that striking and stubborn-as-hell CEO. She just has one problem. No matter what she does, she can't seem to get Lucy off her mind.
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Another case of a decent story plagued by crappy narrating
- By dreacraftie28 on 07-07-17
By: Melissa Brayden
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You Had Me at Merlot
- By: Melissa Brayden
- Narrated by: Lula Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Leighton Morrow didn’t set out to ruin anyone’s life, but she has a job to do. As a development coordinator for Carrington’s Department Store, Leighton’s part of the team that plans to take over the city block for the new location, including demolishing her new favorite café, Bordeauxnuts. A shame, but that’s life. She’ll miss the apple fritters and the cute owner. But work is a No Feelings Zone and she definitely cannot give in to the ones she has percolating for Jamie. Leighton and Jamie have all the ingredients to turn their attraction into love, but it’s a recipe for disaster.
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nailbitter
- By Kathleen Andrea on 02-20-24
By: Melissa Brayden
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Eyes Like Those
- A Seven Shores Romance
- By: Melissa Brayden
- Narrated by: Melissa Sternenberg
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Taylor Andrews is at the top of her career. Everything she touches turns to gold and the studios know it. Just when she's on track for total television domination, Isabel Chase arrives in her office and slowly turns her world upside down. Isabel is intelligent, sarcastic, and dammit, downright beautiful. Unfortunately, she's the one person that can take away all Taylor has worked for. Will Isabel's success lead to Taylor's downfall? Or perhaps Isabel is all she needs....
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Good, but not my fav Brayden book
- By Sondra A., Cobb on 11-17-17
By: Melissa Brayden
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Beautiful Dreamer
- By: Melissa Brayden
- Narrated by: Melissa Sternenberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Who says you can’t go home again? Philadelphia real estate broker Devyn Winters is at the peak of her career, closing multi-million dollar deals and relishing it. She’s pretty much blocked out her formative years in Dreamer’s Bay, where the most exciting thing to happen was the twice a year bake sale. Unfortunately, a distress call hauls her back home and away from the life she’s constructed. Now the question is just how long until she can leave again? And when did boring Elizabeth Draper get so beautiful?
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Wonderful book by my fav author and least fav narrator.
- By Anonymous User on 07-15-19
By: Melissa Brayden
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To the Moon and Back
- By: Melissa Brayden
- Narrated by: Melissa Sternenberg
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Lauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her junior high production of Peter Pan. Yes, her nightgown snagged and brought the set tumbling down, but she was hooked. After years of unsuccessful auditions, performing just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, Lauren established herself as a successful stage manager at the esteemed McAllister Theatre. Unfortunately, the resident director has cast celebrity, Carly Daniel: Headstrong, entitled, and always late. So, why is their chemistry turning her the hell on?
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It happened again
- By Taylor Hofbauer on 05-24-20
By: Melissa Brayden
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- Janie
- 10-25-16
Explosive!
I really like Melissa Brayden' stories. This short revisited characters from Heart Block. It was nice to see Emory and Sara again. I only have one criticism about all her books. She uses the word prior too much. It may not bother anyone else but it does me. But don't let that stop you from listening.
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- Margaret
- 07-13-17
I enjoyed this Audible book.
I really enjoyed the Audible edition of Firework. It was great to revisit some of the characters from Heart Block. Excellent Narration by Kristin Barnes.
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- Lori Ann Crume
- 07-07-16
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Awful narrator. Sounded like a little girl the way way she read and couldn't get tone right. I won't get another book by this narrator even if I like the author. Narration can ruin a story.
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- Kris
- 10-03-17
an enjoyable story
This is a short but very cute story.
It was an easy read with a great are of characters. This is crossover book to Heart Block. the narration for this book was ok just not a lot of variation when it came to each character. However she did a good job telling Lucy's story. It was definitely sweet and you should read it.
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- kelseyrae89
- 03-06-17
Short and sweet
I love all of Melissa Brayden's books, and this one is no different. I don't normally read short stories because I don't have time to connect to the characters like I want to. However, Lucy and Kristin are wonderful and made me feel all over the place with the highs and lows of their story. I read Heart Block awhile back and it was great to be able to check in on Sarah and Emory. My only down side was that the narrator was different for Heart Block so Emory, Grace, and especially Sarah sounds different. Other wise she did a great job.
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- 'Nathan
- 12-09-16
A companion novella (that sizzles) from Brayden
I've been working my way through audiobook after audiobook given the whole "hey, turns out your foot is fractured, lol!" thing, and today I had my feet up while I finished Firework.
Firework is a novella-length book that takes a supporting cast member from Heart Block, Lucy, and gives her her own romantic narrative in the form of a reporter who shows up to do a piece on Lucy's company, Global NewsWire, and it turns out the piece isn't so great.
That the two end up tangled with each other is textbook Brayden: attraction, a dash of circumstance, and some zany wit. That they're both work-focused is one of the few things they have in common, and finding their middle grounds read realistically. Anyone who has ever dated someone with a very different idea of what's fun will likely find one of their perspectives or the other something to nod over.
The collision course, however, isn't without bumps, and that story might undo all the ground that they've covered.
It goes without saying I really enjoyed this (I always enjoy Melissa Brayden), and for a light, shorter-length audio experience, this one is great for down-time listening.
The audiobook performer was much softer in tone than the reader for Heart Block, and I think that was actually a positive. Lucy is a softer person than Emory was, though no less driven, and Kristin is just finding her feet career-wise and has a hesitancy to her in most things that aren't journalistic. The voice acting mirrored that, and it was a positive.
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- Lorraine Rusnack
- 12-22-19
Adorable
Fast moving short story. Two headstrong main characters who can’t resist each other. Well written and narrated. I really enjoy Melissa Brayden’s stories
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- Bettye Jo King
- 06-05-17
Love Melissa Brayden
Although I enjoyed the book this is my least favorite from Melissa Brayden. Perhaps because it seemed more like a short story, but I actually think it's due to the narrator. Sometimes it was hard to differentiate the 2 main characters and was quite monotone throughout. I usually feel like I'm listening to a story performance, but it felt more like listening to some one reading a book out loud to themselves.
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- Ann Townsend
- 06-27-16
Really Well Done Novella
Sometimes, our -- the readers', experience with shorts and novellas is fairly tepid. Too often, these shorter stories have the feel of being part of something longer, with pieces missing. These pieces might be a broader story arc where the short or novella are really chapters or an experimental partial story line. -- I'm sure I could have said that more succinctly, but wasn't feelin' it.... ANYWAY, this was a complete storyline. It had good pacing. It had good time-differentiation. It even had one or more well-placed, sizzling scenes. Well done.
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- Velisa Dodd
- 08-22-18
Another great one!!
Melissa Brayden never fails to entrap me into her stories. I love her humor and I imagine she puts a little of herself in every character. Fireworks is such a sweet story with a bit of sexy thrown in. I mean, how could it not?
As far as narration goes, it could have been better. But still worth the listen.
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