• The Promise in a Kiss

  • A Cynster Novel
  • By: Stephanie Laurens
  • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
  • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (885 ratings)

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The Promise in a Kiss

By: Stephanie Laurens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
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Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author Stephanie Laurens delights her many fans with steamy tales of Regency-era seduction and intrigue.

In a quiet moonlit courtyard, Helena encounters a handsome and mysterious Englishman. Before parting, he rewards her with a special kiss - a delicious, enticing, unforgettable kiss that makes her whole body shiver with desire. Helena doesn't yet know that she has met her destiny - and he is Sebastian Cynster, Duke of St. Ives.

This luxurious tale of passion features a potent reading by narrator Simon Prebble.

Savor another Cynster novel.
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Critic reviews

"With an exquisite finesse, Laurens manipulates the sexual tension between her dark, dangerous hero and her clever heroine into sensually charged love scenes, and the book's swashbuckling climax, worthy of Dumas, should please readers who like a bit of adventure along with a passionate love story." ( Booklist)

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Couldn't Get Past the First Few Chapters

While the narration is quite good, the book... not so much. I made it a third of the way through, but that's all. Boring. I hope I didn't use a credit up on this one.

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Romance, mystery and intrigue!

The story move at a good pace even though it was a long book. I enjoyed all the characters and the h/h did not disappoint in the sizzle department. When you fall in love of course there is strong attraction and romance, if the scenes were too much for some readers I don’t understand, romance and intimacy is normal and is one special way to say I want you and I love you.

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Such potential but...

On the surface this was a good read/listen. If this was the first book in the series I had read it would have had a higher rating. Knowing what happens later sours the whole romance.

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Sizzling

Very interesting historically and characters fit beautifully into the story. Fast moving unable to stop listening for the next twist.

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entertaining stories...

Loved it!!! story is written to capture the reader's imagination... a movie 🎬 in the telling.

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excellent narration good story

I look forward to listening to the books in this series. SL has great verbage in her stories and the narrator does a great job

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Another exquisite book

Another exquisite book from Stephanie Laurens. The storyline was exciting and full of romance, as well. The narrator -Simon Prebble- absolutely superb- paints the picture with his words!

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loved it!

I was happily surprised by the reading of one of my favorite books by Stephani Laurens.

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excellent

This was a well written excellent story and top notch narration. I highly recommend it.

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Love those Cynsters

Stephanie Laurens continues to present high quality stories and Simon Prebble continues to be the voice of the Cynsters. This should actually be book 1 in the series, but it still reads well as book 7.5

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