Order of Swans, Jude Deveraux
Order of Swans, Jude Deveraux
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Order of Swans

Author: Jude Deveraux

Narrator: Alexandra Hunter

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2025


Synopsis

In this spellbinding, fantasy-rich romance, a woman is swept into a world where she has the power to alter fairy tales, and change a kingdom’s destiny…

To Kaley Arens, a PhD student and expert in folklore, fairy stories have always had a power and an allure beyond mere entertainment.

It’s only when Kaley accompanies her lifelong friend Jobi on a visit to his home that she realizes how much she still has to learn. Bellis isn’t the remote island that she believed it to be. It’s another world—a stunningly beautiful and seductive one, with its own royalty, its own rules, and inhabitants who breathe life into the tales she was taught were fiction.

Kaley’s presence is no simple holiday. She has a mysterious connection with Jobi and with Bellis, and abilities that may help determine this world’s fate. Tasked with locating a lost prince, Kaley and her companions—the enigmatic Tanek, a member of the Order of Swans, and Sojee, Kaley's colossal bodyguard—journey through a land both thrilling and terrifying, where the uncanny and the familiar go hand in hand.

But in fairy tales, heroes and villains are easy to discern. Here, nothing is quite as it seems. And though Kaley is discovering that she can change the outcome of the fairy tales she knows so well, her own story is unfolding in ways impossible to predict, with a destiny she could never have foretold…
 

About Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux was born in Fairdale, Kentucky as Jude Gilliam. After earning a degree in art from Murray State University and studying teaching at the University of New Mexico, she taught fifth grade in Santa Fe, New Mexico until her first book, “The Land of Enchantment”, was accepted for publication by Avon books.

The American Romance novel author is well known for her historical romances and has forty-one New York Times bestsellers to date, including “Moonlight in the Morning” and “A Knight in Shining Armor”. There are more than sixty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Deveraux, who was described as "a popular romance author" by the New York Times in 2009, appeared as herself in the 1987 romance novelist documentary “Where the Heart Roams”.

Jude has lived in England and Egypt as well as in several American states, and she has traveled around the world. In her spare time, she likes to read nonfiction and murder mysteries, work in her garden, and in her boxing class, she enjoys showing much younger males that she can throw a mean right cross.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fairuz ᥫ᭡. on February 14, 2025

2 stars! 🌟 Thank you, Harlequin Audio & NetGalley for the ALC! 💌 Y’ALL. WHAT DID I JUST LISTEN TO?! I love a good fairytale retelling, I love sci-fi, and I love being swept away into magical worlds. So in theory, Order of Swans should have been EVERYTHING. But in reality? It felt like I got thrown in......more

Goodreads review by Kristen's on December 11, 2024

As always, thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC! Publishes January 28th! If you were a fan of the show Once Upon a Time, this is the book for you! All of the best fairy tales in 1 world - CHECK Enemies to Lovers - CHECK Political Intrigue - CHECK Slow Burn......more

Goodreads review by Trisha on December 16, 2024

Y'all, this was a draft zero with line edits. I don't know how else to explain this. The premise is so interesting, but so much of the plot is so....lazy and underresearched? The story basically starts with our FMC getting her PhD dissertation rejected by her advisor, saying it's all been done before......more

Goodreads review by Taylor on October 28, 2024

Kaley has always been different from everyone else. She is drawn to fairytales and has a strong, but unexplainable connection to animals. When a family friend offers to take her to his home island after her dissertation on Fairytales is bashed, she eagerly agrees in hopes she will find new stories f......more

Goodreads review by Jade on December 14, 2024

2.75/5 ⭐️ The premise of this story was so promising. But I had a sense this was not going to be for me immediately from the prologue. Suddenly it was more sci-fi, which there was no hint of from the description. But I like sci-fi, so I kept going. Then it was setting up how the main character was li......more