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    With This Ring
    With This Ring
    With This Ring
    Audiobook11 hours

    With This Ring

    Written by Amanda Quick

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Leo Drake, the “Mad Monk of Monkcrest,” is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance.

    The freethinking authoress of “horrid novels,” Beatrice is searching for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, a mythic treasure she suspects played a role in her uncle’s death. Beatrice finds Leo every bit as fascinating as one of the heroes in her novels—and she’s convinced
    he’s the only one who can help her. But after only five minutes in her company, Leo is sure he’s never met a woman more infuriating … and more likely to rescue him from boredom.

    Yet the alliance may well prove to be the biggest mistake of their lives. For a villain lurks in London, waiting for the pair to unearth the Forbidden Rings—knowing that when they do, that day will be their last. …

    “[Amanda Quick is] an exceptional storyteller.”—Daily News of Los Angeles
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 17, 2012
    ISBN9781464033933
    With This Ring
    Author

    Amanda Quick

    Amanda Quick is the pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author, under various pen names, of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers; there are more than 35 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Seattle.

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    • 5/5
      I do wish Scribd could create an option to allow books be read as the audible version is heard.
      I have a Kindle book of I Thee Wed. I read it as I listened to the Scribd audible version.
      I am giving the audiobook a 5 stars out of 5 stars.
      The plot is riveting & well crafted.
      The writing is inspired and the author is exceptional whatever name she chooses to publish under.
      D.B.S.
    • 5/5
      With this Ring was a very entertaining romance with Amanda Quick’s charming heroine who strives to help poor women acquire French accents. This will enable them to get better employment. This is merely a side activity to the real one lot of solving her uncle’s murder, regaining her cousins’s inheritance and of course finding and marrying a mysterious nobleman. Good fun
    • 4/5
      Leo Drake is known as the "Mad Monk of Monkcrest" and is notoriously eccentric and inhospitable. When Beatrice Poole turns up on his door he is intrigued and when she reveals that she's searching for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. She also believes that her uncle, who last had the rings, was killed for them.The two of them have to work together and he starts finding himself attracted to this very independent woman who writes "horrid Novels" as a means of support. She also finds herself attracted to him but is unsure if she wants to sacrifice her independence for another marriage.It's pretty predictable but the characters are both well drawn and great fun.
    • 4/5
      Beatrice Poole is a widow, which makes withstanding scandal slightly easier, but with her beloved Uncle Reggie dead and the family's fortunes uncertain, she's left with no alternative. She'll have to track down Reginald's last purchase, the famed Rings of Aphrodite, which seem to have gone missing. Once located, she hopes to sell them and set things to right, no one in Society the wiser. Of course, to find the rings she'll also have to deal with the Earl of Monkcrest... also known as the Mad Monk. Society manners, secrets, murder and lust - the plot is predictable, but the characters are entertaining.