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    Her Secret Desire
    Audiobook10 hours

    Her Secret Desire

    Written by C.J. Archer

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Previously available as A Secret Life.

    Prepare for a romp through Elizabethan England, where finding love is written in the stars...

    Comely, courageous Minerva "Min" Peabody, a poor but passionate playwright, is determined to make her mark. Ill-fated to live in Elizabethan England, when women-deemed the inferior sex-most assuredly did not write plays, Min will prevail. With her finished play in hand, she implores Roger Style, a local theatre manager in London, to read it. Though desperate in his own right-due to a string of commercial failures-all Style sees before him is a woman playwright, and refuses to even look at her work.

    On impulse, Min changes her story, claiming the play was written by the man standing across the street, and secures the manager's agreement to review it. But her choice of surrogate, Robert "Blake" Blakewell, promises to be a mixed blessing indeed. Blake, a handsome blue-eyed sea captain with his own agenda, is a man with a mysterious past, a pair of breathtaking shoulders, and an irresistible aura of intrigue. Though he agrees to her outlandish proposal, she has to wonder, as she gets lost in his eyes, what in the world she's gotten herself into.

    Blake's own mission? To ferret out the cad in Roger Style's theatre company responsible for getting his sister with child. And when that objective threatens to derail Min's nascent career, his dilemma is a daunting one: protect either his family's honor or the woman who's slowly but surely softening his heart and winning his love.

    Funny, fast-paced, and with a deliciously dark edge, Her Secret Desire speaks to any woman who's ever had to fight for her dreams in a world that just won't take her seriously.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 12, 2012
    ISBN9781469205472
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    Her Secret Desire
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    C.J. Archer

    Over 3 MILLION books sold!C.J. Archer is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of historical mystery and historical fantasy novels including the GLASS AND STEELE series, the CLEOPATRA FOX MYSTERIES, the MINISTRY OF CURIOSITIES and THE GLASS LIBRARY series.C.J. has loved history and books for as long as she can remember and feels fortunate that she found a way to combine the two. She has at various times worked as a librarian, IT support person and technical writer but in her heart has always been a fiction writer. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, 2 children and Coco the black and white cat.Subscribe to C.J.'s newsletter to be notified when she releases a new book, as well as get access to exclusive content and subscriber-only giveaways. Join via her website: www.cjarcher.comFollow C.J. on social media to get the latest updates on her books:Facebook: www.facebook.com/CJArcherAuthorPageTwitter: www.twitter.com/cj_archerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorcjarcher/

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    Reviews for Her Secret Desire

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    • 4/5
      First things first: The author contacted me to see if I would review this (since I've enjoyed her previous work) I agreed and she sent me a copy.

      Now onto the review:

      I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I read it all in one sitting. The author really made you feel for the characters. However, I hated the antagonists more than I like the protagonists. I wanted to slap Min's father, throttle Style and stomp all over Ned. That being said, I did like Min and Blake, they seemed to connect from the first, I liked Min's spunk, and who doesn't love a sexy pirate? I'm sorry, Privateer .

      I highly recommend giving this a go, it was fun, interesting, and engaging.
    • 3/5
      This was a cute fluffy romance story set in Elizabethan England. The heroine, Min, is a playwright that can't get her plays performed and she finagles the hero, Blake, into pretending to be the author of her latest play. The plot is pretty straightforward. A lot of situations that are unlikely given the historical setting but, I was able to overlook them for the most part. I liked a lot of the supporting characters more than I did Min and Blake. I think this was a free download to my Kindle so I didn't invest much except my time. It was a nice light read. Great for traveling since you don't have to keep a complicated plot in mind. I liked it enough to download the second book in the series A Secret Desire.
    • 4/5
      A light, fun historical romance with a fiesty heroine. I enjoyed the peek into Elizabethean times and appreciated the fact that Min loved her father despite their conflicts and wanted to protect him.