A Hundred Kisses (The Hundred Trilogy)

De: Jean M. Grant

Narrado por: Rosalind Ashford

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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.

A Highland Tale

A Highland Tale (an audio review)

I want to start my review discussing the narrator, Rosalind Ashford. Finding the perfect narrator for any book is a challenge and Ashford is brilliant. The story takes place in Scotland and her accent is flawless. Perfect.

The story is interesting. Deidre MacCoinneach has a unique gift – she can see people’s lifeblood energies. She can sense deception, cruelty, kindness, and all other emotions. This is helpful when she wakes up next to not one but two dead husbands. She might also be cursed…or the deaths are a terrible coincidence.

Interestingly, there is one lifeblood she cannot sense – Alasdair Montgomerie. He is pretending to be a trader when in truth he’s working for Bruce, a claimant seeking the Scottish throne. Going by Alec, he meets Deidre and their lives take an interesting turn. They travel together, Alec to deliver intelligence and Deidre to meet her mother’s people in the hopes of discovering why she has this ‘talent’.

Now, I enjoyed the audio but topping out at over 10 hours made it a commitment. I’m glad I embarked upon it, to be sure, but there were a few times when I felt it dragged. Then the pace would pick up and things would bring me along for the ride. So I can recommend the book and I’m looking forward to more books by Ms. Grant narrated by Ms. Ashford.