The Spice King

By: Elizabeth Camden

Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon

Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Gray Delacroix has dedicated his life to building his very successful global spice empire, but it has come at a cost. Resolved to salvage his family before it spirals out of control, he returns to his ancestral home to save his brother and sister before it's too late. 

As a junior botanist for the Smithsonian, Annabelle Larkin has been charged with the impossible task of gaining access to the notoriously private Delacroix plant collection. If she fails, she will be out of a job and the family farm in Kansas will go under. She has no idea that in gaining entrance to the Delacroix world, she will unwittingly step into a web of dangerous political intrigue far beyond her experience. Unable to deny her attraction to the reclusive business tycoon, Annabelle will be forced to choose between her heart and loyalty to her country. Can Gray and Annabelle find a way through the storm of scandal without destroying the family Gray is fighting to save?

©2019 Elizabeth Camden (P)2019 Recorded Books

Excellent. A very good read !!!!!

Insightful, heartwarming and hard to put down. I am looking forward to next book in the Hope and Glory series.

Absolutely Astounding

This book kept me the whole time! I would recommend to anyone, it’s amazing. The characters are interesting and the context is delightful. During every twist and turn, you’ll want to know what’s you’re in for next.

The Spice King

My first time with this author, but it did not disappoint. I’m looking forward to listening or reading more by this author. I loved the historic stuff in the book as well.

Learned about history as I enjoyed an excellent book

I thoroughly enjoyed the story line, in-depth characters, history and narration of this excellent novel.

I look forward to the release of each Elizabeth Camden book and this one certainly did not disappoint. She is an excellent author who does her research into the timeline she writes on in history.

I felt as if I had a peek into Washington DC in that era, the life of someone running a company gathering spices from all over the world, and the political climate of the time.

To top it off there were great characters, family dynamics and a love interest.

I highly recommend this book.

Good story

I enjoyed the clean wholesome, yet very entertaining content of this story!
I hope to listen to many more like it

Interesting story

Good story with interesting characters. But as others have said, the narrator has oddly stilted sentences. She can’t seem to read a full sentence without one to three pauses. Maybe she didn’t read through the book first before recording it, so maybe she’s figuring out the tone and mood sentence by sentence. Sometimes she puts in a hard stop when no period is present. It’s quite distracting, but I eventually got used to it as the storyline pulled me in,

I throughly enjoyed this lite romantic novel and really learned a lot about herbs and spices

I have long been familiar with Good Housing seal of approval and now know the genesis of it. Historical fiction is my very favorite genre and this didn’t disappoint. I loved the fact mrs Camden didn’t need profanity sex or violence to make her book so great. She just had a good story that kept my interest. No fluff or fillers needed here. Now looking for other audible books by her

leaves you needing to read book 2!

loved it! it was a great first book in the series, eager to read the next 2

Good stuff

I enjoyed this story and the performance was good. It was also educational in the history of the good housekeeping award.

Great Book But

Spice king is an excellent, well written plot, but it doesn’t tie up every loose string. It does set the stage for Camden’s next book, Gilded Lady. Therefore I recommend buying them at the same time and reading it first. The first part is a bit slow but the mystery in this Camden book is excellent. It is PG 13 and the history is perfect. I did have a tough time understanding Annabelle’s actions. Witherspoon did not have believable male voices.