A Hundred Kisses (The Hundred Trilogy)

De: Jean M. Grant

Narrado por: Rosalind Ashford

1296

Two wedding nights. Two dead husbands. Deirdre MacCoinneach wishes to understand her unusual ability to sense others' lifeblood energies…and vows to discover if her gift killed the men she married. Her father's search for a new and unsuspecting suitor for Deirdre becomes complicated when rumors of witchcraft abound.

Under the façade of a trader, Alasdair Montgomerie travels to Uist with pivotal information for a Claimant seeking the Scottish throne. A ruthless baron hunts him and a dark past haunts him, leaving little room for alliances with a Highland laird or his tempting daughter.

Awestruck when she realizes that her unlikely travel companion is the man from her visions, a man whose thickly veiled emotions are buried beneath his burning lifeblood, Deirdre wonders if he, too, will die in her bed if she follows her father's orders. Amidst magic, superstition, and ghosts of the past, Alasdair and Deirdre find themselves falling together in a web of secrets and the curse of a hundred kisses…

©2017 Jean M. Grant (P)2018 Jean M. Grant

Engaging story!

I started reading this book and struggled with reading the dialect though enjoyed it immensely on audio. Great story, hated to have to pause it when I got out of the car and loved the narrator. Can't wait to listen to book number 2!

Great read

A great story full of adventure. Loved the characters and the narration was perfect. Adventure, love, danger. Its a fun ride. I received a copy in return for a review.

Romance, magic and adventure.

Deidre has an ability that she doesn't understand. Is it what killed not just one, but two husbands? Some whisper that she may be a witch. When she finds herself traveling with a man she's seen in visions, a man her father wants her to seduce, she wonders if he will die, too. Or will he be the one to break the curse?
Jean M. Grant is really making me rethink my opinion of the romance genre. She's well on the way to making me a fan.
I absolutely love the narrator. I could listen to her for hours. Oh, wait, I already did that.

Gift or curse

Sensing lifeblood curse or gift. Secrets will be unraveled. Is her new travel companion part of future or is she his downfall.

Amazing narrator transports you to 1296 Scotland

If you like historical fiction coupled with romance, you may enjoy A Hundred Kisses. It takes place in 1296 Scotland when the English king wants to take over Scotland and various Scottish landlords want a Scot to rise to power instead. The land is divided, and friends have become enemies.

The story follows Diedre MacCoinneach who is cursed in marriage. (Her first two husbands died on their wedding nights, and a fiancé died before their marriage marriage.) When Alasdair Montgomerie comes upon their keep, her father wants Diedre to seduce him and make him believe the baby is his, thus having to marry his daughter. Diedre does run off with him, but for her own purposes—to meet her unknown aunt, who can potentially tell Dierdre about the mother she never knew and to learn if there is any truth to the curse and Dierdre’s strange visions. On their journey, they slowly begin to fall for each other, but it becomes clear both Dierdre and Alec (as he is known to her) are keeping significant secrets from one another. Add in a dangerous baron, rumors of witchcraft, and you have a suspenseful love story.

I highly recommend the audio version of A Hundred Kisses. The narrator did an amazing job of transporting the listener to 1296 Scotland. Her accents were amazing, and she effortlessly switched between characters and even her male characters sounded authentic. I plan to listen to the prequel next.