Fit for a King

By: Diana Palmer

Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's Summary

They were friends, neighbors, and occasional confidants. Certainly nothing more. Now Kingston Roper needs a favor from Elissa Dean, he needs her to get caught in his bed.

Elissa's sure she can help King out of an awkward situation caused by his rebounding sister-in-law's misplaced affection. After all, she might be the last American virgin, but she could definitely play the temptress, just to be neighborly, of course. But there's a problem with her good intentions. Because Elissa doesn't want to playact anymore. She wants the real thing, with King. But Elissa knows the kind of passion a man like King expects: brief, intense, and heartbreaking. Passion could lead to many things, but could they ever be the things they both want?

©1987 Diana Palmer
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Can you get a backbone?

Not a good listen. The leading woman is a simpering wimp. Who does not stick up for her values. One kiss from her supposedly just friend and she turns into a uncontrolable slut. Yet she thinks he is in love with another woman. When she finally gets her man she slinks off and loses him, because she doesn't put in her two cents about what is going on around her.

Good book, too bad it's abridged!

Diana Palmer is one of my favorite "love stories" authors --- a true romance writer. "Fit for a King" is a great book, but a very unsatisfactory abridged audio. And, because I prefer UNABRIDGED audiobooks I usually WON'T buy an unabridged. BUT, because Audible doesn't have any other audios by Diana Palmer I purchased the abridged. It's just not the same! UNABRIDGED audiobooks, please!

Part of the book is missing

I read this book years ago. And a lot of it is cut out in this audio. I was very disappointed in it.

Not fit at all

I'm starting to think that Diana Palmer's writing is really bad, judging by this book and another one available here titled Lord of the Desert. The writing is bad, the characters say everything that they are thinking (doesn't happen in real life, unrealistic dialogue) and the character's actions are immature. Perhaps reading the book would give a different impression, but I don't think so. The narration here is too forced..I prefer narrators who speak the lines with less personality (i.e. the danger here is making them sound whiney, childish) so I can make up my own mind about how they come across, esp. the lines of men. A woman who reads a man's lines trying to sound like a man only sounds silly and makes the hero sound goofy and unattractive. I'm wondering if audio books are for me or if I just haven't found the right ones.

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Thank you for writing this story. I like most of the stories, depending who is narrating them. Thank again and many blessings

not the same as kindle or paper back book. the

a different version of the paper back or kindle version. took all of the funny parts out.

Sweet story!

Sometimes a little corny , but easy to listen to!
Reminds me of harlequin romances, is it?

A little old-fashioned and Sweet

This is once-upon-a-timewhen virginity was real and hot passion was a dream waiting to happen.

Enjoyable Story

Good storyline. Good narration.
Easy to listen to being a short story. Fast moving story.

Early Classic Romance

Audible Escape
I love these old time short core romances of Ms Palmer, even if the dialogue and thinking are so dated. It is of that time when hero’s were macho and heroines of Ms Palmers books were strong emotionally but keep themselves pure until they found the one and only to marry. These were obtained from another source and the narrator name is given in the opening, but not listed. Ms Karen Carbon does fairly well for this very old classic. I do admit I have cringed just a bit through some of the dialogue and realized as the years have gone by, some of these old books just do not transfer to 2020. I do use the 1.25x speed as that helps to keep the story pace very good. Give it a try.
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