Once and Always - Judith McNaught

Written by Judith McNaught
Read by Barbara Caruso
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series: Sequels, Book 1
Publisher: NLS-National Library Service for the Blind, 1990/2013
Length; 14 hours, 4 minutes

It is 1815….
Victoria Seaton, a blithe and fiercely independent orphan, leaves her home in America to travel across the vast Atlantic to claim her long-lost inheritance: a labyrinthine English estate named Wakefield.

There she encounters her distant cousin, the notorious, proud, and mysterious Lord Jason Fielding.

He was a black bear of a man - in temperament as well as size. Sought after by every matchmaking mama in London, he terrified the debutantes with his brusque manners and barely concealed sexuality.

But in Victoria he had met his match. Young, bereaved, and at first frightened, she quickly measured up to Jason, if not in size, then most certainly in spirit. A war of passion, wit, temper and manners was declared - a battle of a marriage that both were determined to win.

Drawn to his magnetic charisma, Victoria can’t help but suspect that like her, he harbors a dark and painful past. Neither Victoria nor Jason are able to resist one another’s charm but, in a moment of blinding anguish, Victoria discovers the shocking truth that lays at the heart of their love—a love she had dreamed would triumph.

It was a marriage neither of them wanted.