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Belles of London, Book 4
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Stewart Crank
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Zara Hampton-Brown
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Mimi Matthews
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A 2024 BookBub Best Historical Romance!
One of Parade's Best New Books of November 2024!
One of Amazon's and Apple's Best Romance Books of November 2024!
A silver-haired equestrienne and a charismatic artist turn a scandalous bargain into a vibrant portrait of love.
Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist—and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother’s pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic…like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who’s ever really seen her.
Aspiring painter Edward “Teddy” Hayes knows true beauty when he sees it. He would never ask Stella to risk her reputation as an artist’s model but in the five years since a virulent bout of scarlet fever left him partially paralyzed, Teddy has learned to heed good fortune when he finds it. He’ll do anything to persuade his muse to pose for him, even if he must offer her a marriage of convenience.
After all, though Teddy has yearned to trace Stella’s luminous beauty on canvas since their chance meeting, her heart is what he truly aches to capture….
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- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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After years of unbridled debauchery, Tristan Sinclair, Viscount St. Ashton has hit proverbial rock bottom. Seeking to escape his melancholy, he takes refuge at one of Victorian society's most notorious house parties. As the Christmas season approaches, he prepares to settle in for a month of heavy drinking, until an unexpected encounter changes his plans and threatens his heart.
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Short, Sweet and Thoroughly Enjoyable
- By PennyLou on 05-28-19
By: Mimi Matthews
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The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right
- By: Suzanne Allain
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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When Arabella Grant’s wicked aunt dies suddenly, both Arabella and her cousin Lady Isabelle cannot help but feel relieved. She’d made their lives miserable, and now Lady Issie is free to read to her heart’s content, and Bella is free from taunts about her ignoble birth. Their newfound freedom is threatened, however, when Issie’s great-aunt commands her to travel to London for a come-out Issie has never wanted. Issie, who is in poor health, is convinced she’ll drop dead like her mother did if she drops into a curtsy before the queen.
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Elizabeth Knowlden is the BEST!
- By Amanda on 12-26-24
By: Suzanne Allain
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A Holiday by Gaslight
- A Victorian Christmas Novella
- By: Mimi Matthews
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run-of-the-mill London merchant. He's grim and silent. A man of little emotion - or perhaps no emotion at all. After two months of courtship, she's ready to put an end to things. But severing ties with her taciturn suitor isn't as straightforward as Sophie envisioned.
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A Beguiling Love Story!
- By D on 02-08-19
By: Mimi Matthews
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John Eyre
- A Tale of Darkness and Shadow
- By: Mimi Matthews
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre, Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar young boys, he enters a world unlike any he's ever known. Darkness abounds, punctuated by odd bumps in the night, strange creatures on the moor, and a sinister silver mist that never seems to dissipate. And at the center of it all, John's new employer - a widow as alluring as she is mysterious.
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Audible Description is Misleading
- By D. Fields on 08-15-21
By: Mimi Matthews
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Leap of Faith
- The Virtues, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Johns
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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When their elderly guardian dies, Faith Whitford is determined to set up house in Bath and look for respectable country gentlemen for her four sisters. She has no ambitions for mingling with the ton. What she did not expect was a new guardian, in the form of a London Beau to be appointed over them, nor that he would take any interest in their care.
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loved the narration (great voice)
- By Amazon Customer on 10-07-24
By: Elizabeth Johns
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Someone to Watch Over Me
- Bow Street Runners Series, Book 1
- By: Lisa Kleypas
- Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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In this Regency romance, Kleypas, the author of Seduce Me at Sunrise, tells the story of a scandalous beauty with no memory of who she is and the man determined to unravel the secrets of her past.
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Why ruin a great strory with a poor narrator??????
- By CEK on 11-25-18
By: Lisa Kleypas
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The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club
- By: Faith Hogan
- Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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When Elizabeth's husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has called in her daughter, Lucy, to help save Elizabeth from bankruptcy. Leaving her old life behind, Lucy is determined to make the most of her fresh start. As life slowly begins to return to normal, these three women, thrown together by circumstance, become fast friends. But then Jo's world is turned upside down when she receives some shocking news. In search of solace, Jo and Elizabeth find themselves enjoying midnight dips in the freezing Irish Sea.
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Just a feel good listen- so lovely in our busy lives
- By Avron on 02-04-24
By: Faith Hogan
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Not the Duke's Darling
- By: Elizabeth Hoyt
- Narrated by: Ashford McNab
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Freya de Moray is many things: A member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone living under an assumed name. What she is not is forgiving. So when the duke of Harlowe, the man who destroyed her brother and led to the downfall of her family, appears at the country house party she's attending, she does what any Wise Woman would do: She starts planning her revenge.
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Loved it
- By Lady Di on 12-19-18
By: Elizabeth Hoyt
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A Proper Scandal
- By: Esther Hatch
- Narrated by: Abbigail Warren
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Grace Sinclair has been callously cast out of her home. And though taken in as an orphaned child by the vicar and his wife, her unsurpassed beauty makes it impossible for her to remain in the vicar’s household - with two daughters of their own about to enter Society, the vicar and his wife see Grace as nothing but competition. Thankfully, Grace’s estranged Aunt Bell has agreed to take her in to her home in London. But Grace soon learns her situation has just gotten much worse.
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I Could not like Grace
- By Kindle Customer on 12-03-19
By: Esther Hatch
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On My Honour
- Brethren in Arms, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Johns
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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When Lady Margaret Blake and her sister lose their parents in a boating accident, they are left to the guardianship of their uncle. Disregarding their feelings for the price their beauty will fetch on the Marriage Mart, he arranges a match for both. Lady Margaret, however, takes her fate into her own hands. Returning home after war to assume his responsibilities, Luke, Duke of Waverley, expects a nice, quiet life on his country estate. Within hours of stepping foot in England, though, he stumbles upon a young woman being attacked, and no sooner does he rescue her than she runs away.
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Illogical and Ridiculous
- By KT on 06-27-24
By: Elizabeth Johns
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How to Share an Egg
- A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
- By: Bonny Reichert
- Narrated by: Bonny Reichert
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust until she found herself, in midlife, suddenly typing those words into an article she was writing. The journalist had grown up hearing stories about her father’s near-starvation and ultimate survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but she never imagined she would be able to face this epic legacy head-on. Then a chance encounter with a perfect bowl of borscht in Warsaw set Bonny on a journey to unearth her culinary lineage, and she began to dig for the roots of her food obsession, dish by dish.
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Not What I Expected
- By noladel on 03-18-25
By: Bonny Reichert
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- V. Temple
- 11-26-24
This brought me joy!
A lovely conclusion to a beautifully written series. I think too, this might have been my favorite. Mimi does it again! 💕
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-24-24
not great, but good
The story would have been a lot better if the female voice hadn't have been so ridiculous. When she was speaking as a man, I outright laughed at how fake it sounded. I don't know how I got through it. I love that those with disabilities were included.
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- Elaine
- 11-24-24
Stars and light
This book features the fourth of the four horsewomen, Stella, the one with the gray hair. She meets Teddy, the younger brother of Alex from the Parish Orphans series. I loved how the two series interconnected. Teddy is an artist and he admires Stella for who she is. It’s a lovely story, beautifully narrated. Highly recommended!
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- Jean
- 01-09-25
My favorite in the series!
This one seemed to have the most romance and swoon which I loved. The narrators were great except when the female narrator spoke as Teddy. But I still couldn't put it down. Finished it in one day.
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- Gordon Calhoun
- 11-20-24
Love the emotion and attention to detail
Wonderful story full of emotion and attention to detail. As a disabled woman, it’s nice to find a story with a main character who is disabled and portrayed as a very strong and capable individual.
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- Patiotoole
- 12-07-24
Delightful and heartwarming
The story of Teddy and Stella seemed to be a long time coming, but it was well worth the wait! I loved that Teddy saw Stella’s beauty from the first time he set eyes on her and that Stella was drawn to Teddy without ever seeming to hesitate at his disability/limitations. Their attraction was dynamic.
They are young, but seem to have a level of maturity that has come perhaps from the limitations that were set on each of them. Teddy and Stella long for freedom and are rankling at their own personal “prisons.” In choosing a marriage of convenience they are actually choosing freedom.
However, I love that this is not truly a typical marriage of convenience since both of their hearts are already engaged. It is heartwarming also to see that Stella is able and willing to push past Teddy‘s insecurities and walls, creating more than a physical bond between them.
This was a delightful story and the day after I finished reading it, I am still thinking about it. As always, the characters are so well drawn that I feel like I know them and I’m still wondering about them. I love that they have each other.
The one thing I will say, and this is obviously a personal preference, is that I felt there was an intentional lack of spiritual acknowledgment in them as individuals and as a couple. In other words, the various links and situations that brought them together seemed to me to be God ordained and yet this was never acknowledged, and, in fact, had me feeling that this was a missing element in their relationship. I don’t expect this story to be religious in any way, as that’s not its purpose, but I felt the lack of it in this particular story and in their relationship — since we are eternal beings, and somehow Stella and Teddy spoke to that in me.
I highly recommend this book and since I was able to listen to some of it on Audible, I can highly recommend the narration as well.
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- gg78
- 11-25-24
Narration Distracting
I love all of Mimi Matthews books but I did not care for the narration on this one. The back-and-forth between the two narrators was distracting. The male voice was good, and I wish he had read the entire book. The female voice was cheesy when she tried to imitate Teddy‘s voice that didn’t match the male counterpart. It was distracting enough to me to abandon the narration and just finish reading the book myself.
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- Little_shark
- 11-23-24
Without flare or drama
This is the second story of Mimi's that lacks sparkle, I'm very sorry to say, as she is one of my absolute favorite authors. I know Mimi can write excellent drama, but this story just fell flat, nothing happened in it, there was essentially no real conflict or resolution, nothing to get invested in. Hoping for more exciting books to come.
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- Sandy
- 12-01-24
5 Stars for the love story!
Tenderly sensual and swoony, The Muse of Maiden Lane invites readers to embark on a soul-stirring journey of love, yearning, and resilience. Teddy and Stella’s thoughtful and emotionally rewarding romance will undoubtedly sweep readers off their feet. A supremely satisfying series finale that feels more like a new beginning. What happens when you raise the stakes of a marriage of convenience? Read and find out!
I loved this story when I first read it. However, when I reread via audio, the listening experience was frustrating. It took a few hours for my ears to adjust to the two narrators. Both narrators were good individually, But their voices are very different, and consequently, the same characters sounded quite different. This is one of those audiobooks I wish had a single narrator.
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- mary
- 12-13-24
Where Is Alex Wyndham when a story needs him?
I don't get the appeal of two narrators. For me, it is very distracting and jarring. So that being said... this story was not enhanced by the narrators. Both were good. But not quite as good as one narrator narrating the entire book. I was looking forward to Teddy's story and catching up on the Parish Orphans. And I know that I am whining, but Alex Wyndham has been narrating most of the Orphan series... so for me, the consistency of Alex Wyndham as narrator would have been the sound choice to tell Teddy's story. Mr Wyndham absolutely enhances the experience. I often re-listen to stories because for the most part the stories are more enjoyable the second time around. I will not be re-listening to any of the stories in this series.
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