Cecilia, Martha Keyes
Cecilia, Martha Keyes
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Cecilia
A Sweet Regency Romance

Author: Martha Keyes

Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Paradigm Press

Published: 05/20/2020


Synopsis

She dreams of marrying a nobleman. Too bad he's only pretending to be one.Cecilia Cosgrove’s beauty opens doors and hearts everywhere she goes. With a marquess courting her, the status and wealth her family is counting on her to obtain is finally within her reach—until she meets Jacques Levesque, the French nobleman who immediately pegs her as affected and superficial. While piqued and offended, Cecilia secretly begins to wonder whether he might not have a point.Poor French émigré Jacques Levesque has been disguised as a French nobleman for almost as long as he can remember, trying his hardest to keep his head down in a society obsessed with rank and high birth. But when Cecilia Cosgrove comes into his life, he finds it hard to maintain his façade—or to want to.While Cecilia struggles between the desire to please others and the wish to pursue her own course, Jacques's interest in her provokes a powerful enemy intent on taking him down. With love, acceptance, and the future on the line for them both, Cecilia and Jacques must decide whether a life lived behind a mask is any life at all.

About Martha Keyes

Martha Keyes is a Whitney Award winning author who received a BA in French Studies and a Master of Public Health from Brigham Young University. When she isn’t writing, she is honing her photography skills, looking for travel deals, and spending time with her family. She lives with her husband and twin boys in Utah, where she was born and raised.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marlene on September 21, 2023

"You accuse me of affectation?" "I mean to say that whatever I have come to know of you is in spite of what you have said rather than by virtue of it." Cecilia (2019, Paradigm Press), third in the Families of Dorset series by Martha Keyes, is a standalone Regency romance. I've really been enjoy......more

Goodreads review by Pauline on April 10, 2020

This was always going to be that tricky third book of the series, the one where the heroine had been thoroughly unlikable throughout the first two. Is it possible to redeem her? This is one of an author’s greatest challenges, but Keyes is an accomplished storyteller and weaves Cecelia’s redemption e......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on November 05, 2019

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I have really liked the first two books in the Families of Dorset series, but after reading Isabel, I wasn't so sure if I would like Cecilia's story since she was a bit too much of a brat. Author Martha Keyes did a wonderful job though of s......more

Goodreads review by Jacy on August 13, 2024

I liked it. I was a little confused about Lady Caroline. But the notes at the end helped. Her story just didn't flow as well into the story.......more

Goodreads review by Kayla on April 01, 2024

Even better than the other books! I loved seeing Cecilia change and was impressed by the author’s ability to turn her from a selfish unlovable character to someone I empathized for and admired.......more