The Elusive Wife

By: Callie Hutton

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

Jason, Earl of Coventry, needs to discreetly locate his unwanted and abandoned bride among London society to request an annulment. Too bad he can't remember what she looks like because he was blind drunk at his arranged wedding and hasn't see her since.

Newly arrived from the country for the Season, Lady Olivia is appalled to discover that her own husband Lord Coventry doesn't even recognize her. She's not about to tell the arrogant arse she his wife. Instead, she flirts with him by night and has her modiste send her mounting bills to him by day.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, except Lady Olivia finds her husband nearly irresistible.

©2013 Callie Hutton (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Could have been really good

The premise of the story - a blind drunk viscount marrying an arranged bride - had so many possibilities to be a truly fun farce. The groom has no memory of his wife’s face and the bride is known by a different name than spoken at their marriage. If only the bride had more spine and didn’t simper and go “weak kneed” in Jason’s presence and if only we the readers hadn’t been informed of every time Jason’s cock twitched and if only the reader hadn’t sounded like she was reading to a group of kindergartners. If only the story line had been done by a different farce author (DL Carter ?) And performed by different reader!

Awful Narrator

The story was a good one! I enjoyed the disdain for everything ‘ton’ and the concept of an aristocrat not even remembering the face of the woman he had married. However, a good story was ruined by the awful Billie Fulford Brown. She made all dialogue sound like the speakers were stupid and slow, utilizes a way-too-nasal winy English accent 3/4 of the time, and emphasized completely WRONG parts of sentences. This narrator made the book impossible to finish. I would recommend the author without the narrator. This one is better read rather than listened to.

Great listen

A story of mistakes and making up for them and changing ways for love 😍 so great

Terrible narration

The book isn’t bad, it has my attention enough that I want to finish. Which is a feat. However, the narrator is truly awful. No character stays the same, the fake falsetto of the “younger” crowd is grating, and the number of words mispronounced while attempting to keep with her awful attempt at the accent is appalling. Will be avoiding anything narrated by this narrator again.

kept me interested

not done with it yet but I will be soon only half the book to go