Both narrators create undeniable tension and heat.
Samantha Brentmoor and Ian Pringle perform this witty and emotional romance in dual narration. When Bex Daniels loses her family in a train accident, she’s left entirely alone to run the family business, a travel agency. The agency is on the verge of collapse, and her only option is to film a reality TV show with her father’s handsome British business partner, Theo Porter. Brentmoor’s silky, sultry voice poignantly captures Bex’s allure and sass. Her comedic timing perfectly showcases Bex’s sarcastic demeanor, and she layers softer moments with relatable vulnerability. Theo starts out grumpy and turns protective, and Pringle’s regal British accent conveys his charms.
Both narrators create undeniable tension and heat.Pub Date: June 16, 2026
Duration: 10 hrs, 6 mins
DD ISBN: 9798217342716
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: June 16, 2026
After her divorce, Roberta Jewett, with her three daughters, returns to Camden, Maine, to start a new life. Such an independent move in 1916 brings difficulties with her mother, her in-laws and the townspeople. Dukes's performance, while skillful, sometimes suffer in scenes of emotional content. His pace slows, and his reading acquires the peculiar emphasis of someone trying to get instructions across to a non-English-speaking person. The effect is disturbingly laughable. When he resumes his normal pace, the story revives and personalities emerge again, but the awkwardness remains as an odd interruption to Spencer's drama of pain and love, dispelling Dukes's carefully constructed characterizations.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Dove
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
A young Southern woman marries into an aristocratic Boston family and spends her summers at a vacation community on the Maine coast. Heavy-handed abridgment reduces this novel to an outline which denies the listener any character development. Judith Ivey offers stereotypical dialects which are discordant to a New Englander's ear. In her interpretation the Down East Mainers speak like thugs in raspy voices. Her presentation of a Boston accent is phonetically erratic and also spoken in gruff tones. The color and flavor of Maine are missing from this tasteless rendition.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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