The Wages of Sin, book 1, 2 – Caroline Linden Free Audiobook

Written by Caroline Linden
Read by Beverley A. Crick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

My Once and Future Duke
The Wages if Sin, book 1
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 08-28-18
Publisher: HarperAudio

What happens at the infamous Vega Club . . .
Orphan Sophie Campbell has been cared for grudgingly by her grandfather who disowns her as soon as she reaches adulthood.

Taught to play cards by her father as a child, Sophie learns how to make her living at the gambling tables of the Vega Club, she is determined to be mistress of her own fate. Surviving on her skill at cards, she never risks what she can’t afford to lose. Yet when the Duke of Ware proposes a scandalous wager that’s too extravagant to refuse, she can’t resist. If she wins, she’ll get five thousand pounds, enough to secure her independence forever.

Stays at the Vega Club . . .
Jack Lindeville, Duke of Ware, tells himself he’s at the Vega Club merely to save his reckless brother from losing everything, but he knows it’s a lie. He can’t keep his eyes off Sophie, and to get her he breaks his ironclad rule against gambling. If he wins, he wants her—for a week.

Until now.

A week with Jack could ruin what’s left of Sophie’s reputation. It might even cost her her heart. But when it comes to love, all bets are off . . .

A wager leads to complicated consequences when it brings two unusual people together.

Orphan Sophie Campbell has been cared for grudgingly by her grandfather, a stodgy old viscount who disowns her as soon as she reaches adulthood. Taught to play cards by her father as a child, Sophie learns how to make her living at the gambling tables of the Vega Club as an adult. She gambles carefully, losing as often as she wins, and endeavors to attract as little attention to herself as possible.

Her resolution is blown to smithereens when Jack Lindeville, the Duke of Ware, proposes a wager of 5,000 pounds and demands a week of her company if she loses. When he proposes the wager, Jack tells himself that he only wants to keep his dissolute younger brother, Phillip, away from Vega and Sophie. But his impulsiveness forces the couple to live together for a few days in a home that is tucked away from the bustle of London, and the recalcitrant duke winds up getting much more than he gambled for.

Despite its predictable contrivances, credible lovers and honest emotions brilliantly rescue the first installment of Linden’s Wagers of Sin series. Allowing women to gamble openly with men, the Vega Club is an unusually egalitarian variant of the Regency-era gambling den, vividly reminiscent of the city whose name it resembles. Jack’s distaste for gambling contrasts sharply with Sophie’s undeniable skill at playing cards and adds an element of tension to their silky smooth sexual chemistry.

But the beauty of the romance lies more in the telling of the story than the plot itself,

An Earl Like You
The Wagers of Sin, book 2
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Release date: 08-28-18
Publisher: HarperAudio

When you gamble at love . . .
When Hugh Deveraux discovers his newly inherited earldom is bankrupt, he sets about rebuilding the family fortune—in the gaming hells of London. But the most daring wager he takes isn’t at cards. A wealthy tradesman makes a tantalizing offer: marry the man’s spinster daughter and Hugh’s debts will be paid and his fortune made. The only catch is that she must never know about their agreement . . .
You risk losing your heart . . .
Heiress Eliza Cross has given up hope of marriage until she meets the impossibly handsome Earl of Hastings, her father’s new business partner. The earl is everything a gentleman should be, and is boldly attentive to her. It doesn’t take long for Eliza to lose her heart and marry him.
But when Eliza discovers that there is more to the man she loves—and to her marriage—her trust is shattered. And it will take all of Hugh’s power to prove that now his words of love are real . . .

The original download I edited was not mine and the sound is not as good as I would like.