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Gayle Hendrix
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Susan Mallery
About this listen
Mr. December: Duncan Patrick, CEO Scrooge.
His Objective: Lose the "bah humbug" attitude.
His Plan: Find the right (temporary) mistress.
A powerful businessman, Duncan didn't like ultimatums, unless he was making them. But the board demanded his public image change. When he encountered sweet kindergarten teacher Annie McCoy, he knew she'd make him look like a perfect angel, though it would take some devilish manipulation.
Once he had Annie playing his pretend mistress, Duncan needed to make her his real-life lover. Could a grouchy CEO cultivate the charm necessary to win the woman he'd almost destroyed?
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Not worth reading/listening to
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Get Out the Kleenex
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An unexpected pleasure!
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Delicious
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cute, sweet
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Susan Mallery before she learned to write.
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By: Susan Mallery
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The Girl of His Dreams
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Not worth reading/listening to
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Get Out the Kleenex
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An unexpected pleasure!
- By Judy on 03-23-10
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Delicious
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cute, sweet
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Not Your Finest Hour Susan....
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SHELTER IN A SOLDIER'S ARMS
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Shelter - it was such a basic need and one that single mom Ashley Churchill had always been able to provide for her little girl. Until her luck turned, and the only protection she could find was in her stony and taciturn boss, security specialist Jeff Ritter. Jeff warned he was only offering to share his home, not his life, and that suited Ashley just fine. She would make it on her own.
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Narrator whistles
- By Kindle Customer on 12-06-15
By: Christine Rimmer, and others
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Under Her Skin
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Lexi Titan can just see the headlines. All of Titanville will be buzzing. Not that she has any other choice. Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with two million dollars, she is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodriguez or lose everything--the successful day spa she built herself, her tyrant of a father's respect.
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Great start for the Lone Star Sisters series!
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You Say It First
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Sculptor Nick Mitchell grew up in a family of artists and learned from his volatile father that passion leads only to pain. As he waits on a new commission, he takes a day job as a humble carpenter at a theme wedding venue. The job has its perks - mainly the venue's captivating owner, Pallas Saunders. Although he won't let love consume him, for ecstasy with an expiration date, he's all in.
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Not impressed - Trashy
- By AudioBookChik on 06-11-20
By: Susan Mallery
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Barefoot Season
- A Blackberry Island Novel, Book 1
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Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she’s still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet, Michelle returns to the quaint Blackberry Island Inn to claim her inheritance and recover from the perils of war. Instead, she finds the owner’s suite occupied by the last person she wants to see. Carly Williams and Michelle were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal destroyed their friendship. And now Carly is implicated in the financial disaster lurking behind the inn’s cheerful veneer.
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Narrator Ruins It
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By: Susan Mallery
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The Sister Effect
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Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she’s raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow—nose down, work hard, follow the rules.
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Book conveys the dynamics in a family
- By Shumpie on 04-23-23
By: Susan Mallery
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The Girls of Mischief Bay
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Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and supporting her husband, who quit his job to write a screenplay she's never seen. He won't even help take care of their son, leaving Nicole to run the house and work full-time at her Mischief Bay Pilates studio. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves?
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Great
- By sandy_lowe on 02-27-15
By: Susan Mallery
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Surrender in Silk
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Jamie Sanders was finally turning her back on her secret life as a government agent to search for who she really was -- as a person, and as a woman. But first she had to take on one final mission. She was determined to help the man who had made her into a lethal killing machine -- the man who had also awakened the woman within her.
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Perfection!
- By Kd on 06-21-10
By: Susan Mallery
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The Only Way Out
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- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Andie Cochran thought she had at last escaped the clutches of her ruthless, power-mad ex-husband -- but then he abducted the child she loved more than life itself. And now, alone in a foreign country, she had no one to turn to but another very dangerous man -- a man who awakened passions she had thought long dead.
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Narrator excellent, story just a little less
- By LeftyMom on 11-26-09
By: Susan Mallery
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The Friendship List
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- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Single mom Ellen Fox couldn’t be more content - until she overhears her son saying he can’t go to his dream college because she needs him too much. If she wants him to live his best life, she has to convince him she’s living hers. So Unity Leandre, her best friend since forever, creates a list of challenges to push Ellen out of her comfort zone. Unity will complete the list, too, but not because she needs to change. What’s wrong with a 30-something widow still sleeping in her late husband’s childhood bed?
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Just okay
- By Macy on 08-09-20
By: Susan Mallery
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The Summer of Sunshine and Margot
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- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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The Baxter sisters come from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love. But this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn disasters into destiny....
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Not One of Susan Mallery's Best
- By MrsAlex on 09-26-19
By: Susan Mallery
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Say You'll Stay
- By: Susan Mallery
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Some heartbreaks hit harder than others. For Shaye Harper, the last one was so bad she swore off men for good. Wishing Tree, Washington, was supposed to be a pit stop on the road to a fresh start, but Shaye is swiftly drawn in by the quirky small town’s celebrations - and a handsome stranger she can’t resist.
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short
- By Fireball on 09-21-24
By: Susan Mallery
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- JC
- 08-05-10
Good Story...BAD Narration
I really enjoy Susan Mallery books but I will never purchase another book narrated by Gayle Hendrix. The story was great. It was cute and at the end I was smiling, which is exactly why I read this kind of romance book. However, the narrator was just awful! She shows no acting ability at all. Her voices barely differ from one character to the other and she not consistent with their voices. It makes it very hard to keep track of who's speaking sometimes. She is just flat through most of the book. I asked my 15 year old son to read a couple of pages aloud to make a point and he did a much better job. Doesn't someone listen to these people before they are hired to read? If I wrote a book, I would make sure that the narrator read the book to match how I have written the characters and are able to bring the book to life. The entire reason I get audio books is for the actor who reads it to bring it to life for me while I listen. This was no better than listening to the computer voice that reads the pages from my kindle.
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- Lilley
- 11-17-17
Not great
It was very cliche... a jaded(arguably misogynistic) douchebag rich hero who's had bad relationships with the women in his life meeting a sweet selfless and practically stupidly naive heroin and reluctantly falls for her as she thaws the ice around his heart with her love blah blah blah. Very very predictable story. On top of that the hero and heroine had no chemistry that i could detect... the bots that were supposed to be sweet were just blah and the parts that were supposed to be sexy were just a bore.
***SPOILER ALERT***
I honestly felt like the hero's description of what he felt for his ex was full of more heat and passion than what he said he felt for the heroin. i was also not a fan of the heroins's martyr stunt; it was truly annoying and stupid... especially considering the fact that the hero said he didn't want his ex back.
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- M. Hunt
- 04-27-10
Think "Mary Poppins Meets Scrooge"
Fun, Light-Hearted and Fluffy!
This romance hits the spot for a rainy day or quiet night.
It's a classic theme romance readers have always loved with a perfect amount of STEAM!
Sensuality Rating: 7
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-13-11
What's with the narrarator?
I love almost all Susan Mallery books and this was no exception, but the narrarator was awful! She sounds like an old woman which meant that it was like having my grandma read me steamy sex scenes! Her various secondary charachters ended up having weird accents that did not go with the story. Read the book yourself, don't have Gayle Hendrix do it for you!!!
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- cynthia
- 01-19-20
Not my favorite Mallery book
It had more of a harlequin book than a Susan Mallery book. Still okay but not the high humor and great love story.
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- Lajuan
- 08-28-10
Rushed...
Romance novel that is a light read. Everything just seems so rushed...no offense please but it is like the author wrote it in an afternoon. But I guess you know what you are getting when it is one download and not expensive. It's like she went down the checklist of how to write a novel.
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- B. D.
- 09-22-20
Actually It Should Be 0 Stars
This book is one of the most boring I’ve ever tried to listen to. I realized pretty quickly that it went on and on about absolutely nothing. There was no meat to the story, the characters were blah and worst of all the narrator NEVER even tried to change her voice when she was reading different characters. This is all especially bad because it’s a Susan Mallory book. So skip this one and go read the phone book, you’ll find it to be a lot more interesting.
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- Deanne
- 02-21-14
Bad narration - she emasculated the hero.
The cadence and pitch was so hard to listen to that after about 2 hours I gave up and quite listening. I think it could have been a good story but I just couldn't listen any longer. Really, who pauses after every 3 or 4 words?
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- SIMARA
- 11-09-17
I got bored
The story felt too unreal for my taste. About half way I got bored but I can predict the ending as a HEA for the teacher and CEO.
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