Nowhere Near Respectable

Name: Nowhere Near Respectable
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Mary Jo Putney
ISBN: 9781461803959

Author: Mary Jo Putney

Series: Lost Lords (Putney) #3

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/03/2011

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author Mary Jo Putney has claimed two RITAs, two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards and four Golden Leaf Awards. Her mastery of the historical romance is evident in every word of Nowhere Near Respectable. Damian Mackenzie is an incorrigible gambler just honorable enough to save Lady Kiri Lawford from dangerous smugglers. That does not, however, mean he has any desire to return her romantic interest-until he learns Kiri's not exactly the prim and proper lady society expects her to be.

About Mary Jo Putney

Mary Jo Putney is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has written over sixty novels and novellas. A ten-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, she has won the honor twice and is on the RWA Honor Roll for bestselling authors. In 2013 she was awarded the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. Though most of her books have been historical romance, she has also published contemporary romances, historical fantasy, and young adult paranormal historicals. She lives in Maryland with her nearest and dearest, both two and four footed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elis

The story in a nutshell: But how did one interrupt a conversation to say, “By the way, last night I slipped out to an alarmingly fashionable club and helped foil a royal kidnapping, and I intend to move to a house in a bad neighborhood so I can live with dangerous strangers and dress like a doxy an......more

Goodreads review by Monique

Een avonturen roman met een beetje romantiek erin verwerkt . Kiri is en beetje te perfect naar mijn smaak ( ze kan echt alles hè ) maar aan de andere kant doet ze voor een dochter en zuster van een Hertog wel erg gemakkelijk afstand van haar maagdelijkheid . Geen suikerzoete romantiek maar wel lekk......more

Goodreads review by Elena

4.5 stars. This is what Regency romance should be. It doesn't do anything particularly exciting or new with the genre, but what it does is traditional historical romance extremely, extremely well. My favorite bit was that the hero and heroine actually genuinely liked one another. When thinking about......more