Ransomed Jewels

Ransomed Jewels, Book 1

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

With her husband's dying words, "My marchioness has it," the Marchioness of Huntingdon is thrown into a nightmare of intrigue and danger. But even those who are holding her brother ransom can't force her to do the impossible - hand over a necklace she doesn't have.

Major Samuel Bennett believes the newly widowed Lady Claire Huntingdon is a traitor. He intends to get the necklace he's convinced she has, before sending her to the gallows. But when he meets the captivating widow, he discovers that nothing is as it seems.

Claire knows she can't trust anyone, but she isn't given a choice when Major Bennett arrives, demanding she give him the necklace. And it isn't until she's forced to put her life in his hands that she realizes it isn't only her life she's in danger of losing - but her heart as well.

©2016 Laura Landon (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Great read

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and read it in one sitting. I'm so glad I found this author.

Extremely enjoyable

This was a wonderful story. Strong enjoyable characters with a captivating story line. I would highly recommend the story. The audible narrator is also very good.

Randsomed Jewels

Pretty good story with a few surprises.

I really enjoyed the narrration, I liked the voice of the narrator

Perils of Pauline meets Torturing Mr. Bill

This story is the historical romance version of a bad soap opera. How many times can the hero and heroine in a story survive multiple beatings, life threatening knife attacks, and gunshot wounds? After the umpteenth time of having to call the doctor, they even joke it would be easier to give him a room in the house! Spoiler alert, there is more to this soap opera... wait for it, the heroine learns that her recently deceased "husband" was a bigamist. Every good story needs to have the main characters overcome some conflict or challenge to prove their mettle -- that makes the story interesting, but Laura Landon takes it way too far in this one. Having said all that, my favorite narrator, Rosalyn Landor, rises to the occasion and does the best she can with what she has been given to read.

Fair book and not so good narration..

I’ve read a couple of books with this theme and I can honestly say I didn’t like them. Sam tells Claire that the necklace he thinks she has could save thousands of lives but all she cares about is her brother, who has been kidnapped by the owner of the necklace, and he wants it back. That makes her looks selfish when it comes to all the soldiers she could save BUT it’s still understandable that she wants to save her brother. At 17% I was wondering if the author was going to make us read 300 pages of them arguing over this stupid necklace and if that’s the way it was going to be I wasn’t going to read the remainder of the book.

As I went along it was rather silly how Claire kept telling herself she should tell Sam about Alex being kidnapped, and then she’d talk herself out of it. Again and again this went on. I hate repetitiveness that just makes up the page count in a book.

Overall, this was a decent read and a pretty good mystery but it was nearly ruined by Sam being so freaking dense. Talk about someone being TSTL! Good grief, that man got so many things wrong it was unbelievable. Sooo many misunderstandings and angst. As much as I liked the spies, the mystery, the search for the traitor this author is way to angsty for me.

It was made much better by keeping you guessing as to who the traitor was until the end and I was really shocked.

There was a good amount of desire in this, which made it even better, and a beautiful bedroom scene. Of course, there was no swearing.

As to the narration: I know a lot of you are fans of Rosalyn Landor, and think she can do no wrong, BUT her male voices are just terrible. The men sounded like they’re constipated or something and trying to grunt through it. This could have been a fantastic book with a different narrator. Even with all her emotions she reads with she really needs to work on her male voices.

Great Love Story with Wonderful Narration!

I really enjoyed this book - not your "run of the mill historical romance". It had spies, suspense, danger, treason, stolen jewels & coded documents naming surprising guilty person. Major Samuel Bennett believes the newly widowed Lady Claire Huntingdon is a traitor & he intends to get the necklace & coded papers away from her before sending her to prison. After the two meet, he is captivated by the widow & she may or may not be as guilty as he first thought. Claire is strong, intelligent, brave & beautiful & little by little & many adventures, they find themselves in love.. I loved all of the twists & turns in the plot & the chameleon characters were great. The ending was a definite surprise to me, I never would have guessed this character was the traitor. I felt all the characters were well developed & I hope we get to see some of them down the road in this series. I have read many of Laura Landon's books & find her style of writing very enjoyable - I highly recommend this series.

ransomed Jewels

Roslyn Landor gave a extraordinary performance. her talent is Priceless. Story was amusing, less cliche.

Fabulous

This is my first book by Laura Landon and will definitely not be the last. I love when I happen upon a great story like this one. What makes it even better is that Roslyn Landors narrates the story, she is my all time favorite narrator.
I would recommend this book you have to get this book.

More Romance Than Risk

I love the old “genteel” mysteries, however, this book was more mushy than mysterious. Tedious towards the end,—the first book in a long time that I almost ended before finishing.

Story is good

While I liked the story I found myself rolling my eyes at many cliche phrases used describing Claire's thought/emotions. Maybe I've just read too many historical fiction....