The Promise of Miss Spencer

A Victorian Romance

By: Sarah McConkie

Narrated by: Amanda Cook, Dallin Bradford

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's Summary

Miss Suzanna Spencer has successfully avoided marriage, waiting for love and equality in a husband of her choice.

Yet when her father suddenly becomes ill, she agrees to his dying wish — to marry Mr. Lacy and secure her future. Cast suddenly into a mourning period, Suzanna and Mr. Lacy agree to keep their engagement a secret until the proper six months have passed. But when Suzanna and Mr. Lacy find themselves thrown together with Miss Grysham and her handsome uncle Lord Haversley, everything becomes complicated. If only Lord Haversley didn’t expose his true bravery.

If only there wasn’t so much more to him than a gaudy Lord in Parliament. If only he would leave Suzanna alone. As the threat of smallpox looms close, all four friends must work together — and apart — to save the lives of those they love. Forced into keeping a promise, or securing the promise of her future, Suzanna must reconcile her obligations with her heart as she searches for a love she never had.

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A sweet regency romance

This audiobook was sweet and involved an hidden engagement that lead to some unique situations. During a time when the smallpox was a great epidemic in London, Miss Spencer finds herself without family and quickly engaged to Mr. Lacy. But because of the required mourning period, the two agree to leave the engagement secret.

All goes well, until both are thrown together at another’s house party, Lord Haversely. The handsome man, not knowing Miss Spencer’s betrothal, falls in love with her. The love triangle only gets more confusing when Mr. Lacy begins falling for another as well. What do they do? Follow their hearts? Or the promise of a dying man?

The narration was done well. I felt it was a bit slow, so I sped it up to 1.1x and it felt more natural

Handsome Lord, determined woman, and the small pox epidemic

Love the history in historical romance? Just finished the audiobook version of this book. As someone who equally enjoys the history part of historical romance, I love it when an author can balance fascinating history with a good love story. In this case, it’s the history of the small pox vaccine. I had heard of the milkmaid who had cowpox that lead to the discovery of a small pox vaccine. I never gave a thought to who would prove the validity of the vaccine and how scary it would be to be the first one to try it and then be exposed to the disease multiple times to see if it works.

Some books I believe are better listened to because if the narrators are good, they can really bring out the emotion of the characters. That’s what I enjoyed about this book. I kept thinking “just 10 minutes more.”

The story is told from three different perspectives (Miss Suzanna Spencer, Mr. Lacy, and Lord Haversley). I loved both the male and female narrators.

I only wish that the main characters had more interactions with each other. There is a reason why Suzanna holds back, but I wish there could have been more moments like when she is secretly baking bread and Lord Haversley catches her in the kitchen. There are enough twists and turns to really keep you wondering who Suzanna will end up with, if anyone at all...

If you’re looking for a historical romance audiobook to listen to, this is a good one to pick up.

I received a complimentary copy of this audiobook from Cedar Fort for my honest review. All opinions are my own and I was not required to give a positive review.

Audiobook version: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Content: Clean historical romance

Clean Regency Romance

If you’re after something a little light and with characters that you can feel good about liking, this is the listen for you. Easy and fun.

Well done

What a beautiful story!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it and didn’t want to put it down. The narrators did a fantastic job as well!

Excellent regency

Wonderful story! Well written. Fabulous character development-I loved that the hero realized his true self was the best and the heroine realized that she knew how to love and could be loved in return.