Dukes and Secrets - The Complete Series - 5 Steamy Regency Romances

Dukes and Secrets, Band 0-4

De: Mariah Stone

Narrado por: Shane East, Justine Eyre

Four full-length audiobooks. One great price. Limited time only.

Welcome to Regency London, where powerful dukes harbor dangerous secrets and fiery, unconventional heroines challenge their hearts. This complete collection follows the Seaton family as they navigate revenge, betrayal, and unexpected love in a society where appearances are everything—and the truth could destroy them all…

What awaits you inside:

Book 0: When the Duke Bought a Wife - A prequel that sets the stage for the series.

Book 1: All Duke and Bothered - A vengeful duke finds his world upended by an enemy's daughter, whose spirit and passion light up his darkened life.

Book 2: Her Rake Finance - A lord's quest to find his brother leads to a faux engagement with a woman whose courage and dignity defy her humble status.

Book 3: Project Duke - A marriage of convenience between a daring lady and a rakish duke becomes a genuine quest for love amid danger.

Book 4: Betting Against the Scoundrel - A war-torn nobleman and a mysterious wallflower enter a scandalous wager that could lead to ruin or redemption.

This collection contains five complete audiobooks featuring the Seaton family's journey from revenge to redemption. Each steamy, emotional romance can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed as part of this interconnected series. Contains mature themes, high-heat scenes, and the happily-ever-afters you crave.

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Good foundation, but . . .

The opening chapters of the first novel of the series provided a plausible foundation and a good introductions to the main characters. However, as the storylines progressed, I often became disappointed by some over dramatizations in the plot lines. And I was frequently frustrated by my failure to understand characters’ decisions, motivations, and intentions.

loved the entire series!!

don't think about it just purchase and enjoy the series...loved all the books! the narrator were tge absolute best!

The female narrator…… please just shoot me

The female narrator, with the quaver in her voice ….🥴….who hires this woman for their books?

I’ve listened to over a thousand books and she, without doubt, is the most off putting I’ve ever experienced. A virtual voice would have been an improvement, and I shun virtual voice books.

Good Story Ideas & Setups; Terrible Bros & Inconsistent Plot Logic, Sad HEAs.

Good Story Ideas & Setups; Terrible Bros & Inconsistent Plot Logic, Sad HEAs. Series began so incredibly well. it was engaging, the brothers interacted well, & there was hope for love, family, & character growth. But then came Preston's story.

Preston & his wife were betraying terrible people who didn't deserve anything but contempt, despite all the excuses made in their own story and the next. Yes they looked for Spencer. But to what end? Truly. What did they think would happen once they found him while they canoodled? They were dishonest & selfish & did not deserve their so-called romance or happiness, which always came at someone else's expense. In fact, the ensuing last story about the brother they robbed & betrayed like selfish children was so horrible & sad that I couldn't see how much Spencer made excuses for them and let them off the hook. He ought to have eviscerated them both. They were despicable - esp after the first few stories where the real Duke IMO (Spencer. big brother, last story) took such good care & loved them all - including the artist who so easily abandoned him with flippant "friend love" labeling & thus proved vain. It was fine to love & lead him on while she needed adoration & while writer created her wonderful character, but then she suddenly follows the plot & emerges with the loyalty of an opportunist user. It was all a lazy writer's excuse to let her "fall in love" guilt-free. But it just didn't add up to an authentic HEA.

The writer tied inconsistencies up in a bunch of lazy bows that didn't make sense emotionally or logically. Spencer's suffering was explained away by saying that let them all find true love (fate?), that it was Spencer's vengeance that separated the family (not them or their inability to make things right), that Spencer now likes himself (but didnt before?) WTH? It was not consistent with how the characters & stories were set up & developed. The plot worked against itself & lacked consistent emotional/logical under-girding that keeps the reader rooting for & getting a HEA.

So in the last story, I just did not find Spencer's love interest for Joanna believable in light of everything else he lost & his previous love interest & so much betrayal (even by his family). It was like he only got second best of everything after a lifetime taking care of all of those beautiful, handsome, selfish, irresponsible opportunist oafs who just pranced off with everything for their own selfishness. Spencer's family supposedly trying to get him back didn't look like that to the reader. They were all about their own comfort & staus quo....pushing it all under the rug and urging him to "talk" & pretend all is ok. Even the fight in the end seemed like a fake panacea when none of them owned their treatment of him. Spencer lost everything & gets the second-hand everything - not even true vengeance. Based on the writers own descriptions, he gets the tough but less-than-gorgeous & less-than ladylike Joanna, the less-than real title, the less-than vocation/future, the less-than family connections/relationships, the less-than health, etc... Love? Romance? HEA? Not believable at all. No real HEA.

Thus I felt like the entire series was ruined by its own storyline. There was no real happy ending for anyone after Preston. The pathetic words trying to explain Spencer's misery away by the writer - as if fate & attraction & family makes it all ok, seemed wholly inauthentic. It was less of a romance & more like a dab of sex-tinted romance got plastered in a thin layer over an unjust family and a permanent personal tragedy... a tiny bandaid with smiley faces on a giant stab wound. So disappointing.

Narrators, however, are amazing. I concur that the male narrator is by far the better of the two.