The Charmer

Assassins Guild, Book 1

Handsome. Charming. Devastating. He was the last man she needed, but the only one she wanted.

Elizabethan England: Orlando Holt has never assassinated a woman before. The lovely, feisty Lady Lynden will be his first. She's supposed to be a vicious murderess, but when Orlando begins to have doubts, he sets out to discover the identity of the person who hired him. What he learns will turn his world upside down and propel him headlong into love with a woman who's immune to his charms.

Twice widowed by the age of 24, Lady Susanna Lynden has had enough of charming men. Her last husband knew all the right things to say to get her to the marriage bed...then made her life miserable.

Money may be scarce and her house falling down around her, but the exotic fruits from her orange trees will keep poverty away. Except, someone is thwarting her at every turn. Someone who may even want her dead.

©2013 C.J. Archer (P)2020 C.J. Archer

Be a strong woman or don’t

Really, a very good story and excellent narration. My challenge was that the main character’s strength seemed to come from her loving sex and looking at her lover’s member. That’s just fine, but I would have liked her being more decisive and less maidenly day to day.

Good story ok performance

I enjoyed the story and male narrator was great but the female character sounded robotic at times and over acting at other times. it was a little difficult to enjoy.

OMG- Female narrator STINKS

Ugh!!! I love a ton of CJ Archer’s books. Her regular narrators are amazing. This female narrator is so unnecessarily dramatic. Every. Word. Is. Drama. Ugh. I’m not sure I’m going to make it through.

Great start to a new series but.....

I have listened to many series by CJ Archer and this one sounds very promising. But I am struggling with the female narration. She tends to read slowly and her style does not match the male narrator, whom I enjoy very much. He sounds relaxed and like he “is” the characters he reads. I’m going to give it another shot, but I may need to switch to the kindle version.

Not C.J.'s best

I have loved every C.J. Archer book that I've heard except this one. You can call be a prude if you want but I don't appreciate the sex scenes. Leave the details out of that and the story would be pretty good.