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Keira Grace
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Aurora Rey
About this listen
For Mira Lavigne, cider is about tradition, elegance, and class. She has little respect and even less patience for self-anointed mavericks who think their ticket to fame and fortune is throwing the rulebook out the window. Dylan Miller is one of those people. The only thing she loves more than pushing the envelope is finding ways to make cider, perry, and a few things she hasn’t even named yet more delicious and more accessible to everyone.
When Mira and Dylan are tapped to co-chair Finger Lakes Cider Week, neither can pass up the publicity and prestige of the role. But professional compromises raise personal stakes, and Dylan and Mira are hard-pressed to keep their businesses—and their hearts—out of harm’s way.
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- Scheliece Sankey
- 10-20-22
this was lovely
love the sex scene lol. Love the contest of the two main characters and the bi racial pairing made me so happy becuz finally I get to relate . Definitely recommend it
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- Marquie
- 10-05-22
Such a delight
Nice to have Audrey and Rowan be so involved in this second book. Another beautifully written story by Aurora Rey. Keira Grace did a masterful job, can’t think of audio where she had to do so many different voices. These two together are never a disappointment. Always deserving of listens.
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- Bree
- 10-25-22
Buy the Book
If Boring is a place, Keira Grace is the mayor. The writing begs for spirited narration.
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- Gwendolyn Gunter
- 01-16-23
Great story
This was a great story with interesting MC’s. I didn’t care for the narration. It was very distracting. I forced myself to finish listening but it was extremely difficult.
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- Bobbi H
- 05-12-23
Makes me want to get some cider
I love how passionate they are about each other and while I wouldn’t enjoy the work I love that they are so passionate about it.
Another great listen from Aurora Rey and Keira Grace!
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- Lez
- 11-17-24
Robot?
The narrator sounded like a robot reading… no emotion nothing… the narrator ruined the story. I turned it off bc I will get more reading it myself
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- Amber
- 11-26-24
Hard cider
The narrator made the voices very masculine which I didn’t like. The MC was a bit of a child and I just wanted to put her in timeout. Overall a cute story.
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- K. E.
- 02-08-23
Not sure I’ll finish
The most entertaining part was figuring out that at .5 speed it sounds like Jennifer Coolidge is reading.
The narrator is a robot.
The story is just ok. Maybe it would be more exciting with a different voice performing. I find myself zoning out a lot.
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- Sab
- 01-21-23
Boring book
This book was boring I could not relate to any of the characters and narration was so bad that it didn’t help it.
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- JC
- 10-17-22
Boring
So very boring. I kept skipping ahead and I didn’t miss anything. As far as the narrator, sometimes I like her narration and voices and sometimes not, this was a not so much time.
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