The Bartered Bride - Mary Jo Putney Audiobook

Written by Mary Jo Putney
Read by Beverley A. Crick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Bride Trilogy, Book 3
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: January 5, 2021
Duration: 12:10:48

After building a fortune in the exotic East, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott sets his sails for London to begin a new life. Then fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies where a European woman faces degradation and peril. Though saving her may cost Gavin his life, he cannot refuse to help the fierce beauty who touches his heart and soul with her indomitable spirit.

Alexandra Warren is returning home from Australia as a widow and mother when a pirate attack condemns her to a life of servitude. A miracle arrives in the form of a steely-eyed Yankee captain, whose reckless courage wins them freedom and a safe passage home to London. Intimate strangers joined by too many secrets, they slowly begin to heal the past with attraction and tenderness–until an old enemy reaches out to threaten the passionate love Gavin has found with his irresistible bartered bride.

Publishers Weekly…May 6, 2002
This final volume in a popular trilogy is a rich and realistic 19th-century historical romance. Gavin Elliott, captain of his trading company’s flagship, has been traveling the East Indies since the death of his young wife and infant daughter. Alexandra Warren, too, is widowed; soon after she and her daughter leave Australia for England, their ship is taken by Malaysian pirates and she is abducted. When Gavin visits Malaysia as the guest of a local sultan, he sees Alexandra on the block at a slave auction….. Putney knows how to create characters attractive enough to enchant readers without being too good to be true. Gavin is gallant and romantic—he risks his life for a woman he doesn’t know, marries her to protect her reputation and understands her physical reticence after her traumatic experience—but he is not without doubts and desires. Alexandra, for her part, believes that Gavin helps her out of chivalry, but she is too gracious and too aware of her position to reject his aid. Both characters have vivid inner lives and thoroughly imagined personalities. Their union is inevitable—this is a romance novel—but their journey from strangers to spouses to true lovers is utterly authentic.