Secret Fire (1987) - Johanna Lindsey Audiobook

Written by Johanna Lindsey
Read by Carol McCartney
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 9 hours, 36 minutes
Publisher: NLS, Washington DC, 1988/2014

He’d caught only a glimpse of her from the window of his carriage, but the young Russian prince knew he had to have her.

Within minutes, Lady Katherine St. John was dragged from the London street like a common waif and carried off to a sumptuous town house–for the pleasure of her noble admirer. But it was a captive tigress Prince Dimitri found in his bed–consumed with a fierce rage toward the Russian “barbarian” who had kidnapped her–even as she found herself desiring this tawny-maned Adonis with a hunger beyond herunderstanding…

From the tempestuous passion of that first encounter, across stormy seas, to the golden splendor of palaces in Moscow, she was his prisoner. But even as her fury defied his bold claim of ownership, an all-consuming need made her his slave. For theirs was a fever that fed upon itself, carrying them irrevocably toward a final surrender to the power of undeniable love.

A few Reviews…I cannot really explain why this is a favorite Johanna Lindsey book since the premise is rather offensive. A rich, playboy Russian prince sees a woman on the streets of London, and tells his servants to abduct her since he’s currently without a bedmate. They actually kidnap her and take her back to Russia. Ugh! What? Yet I love this book.

This book is at the top of my list for most hated. That’s because the two main characters are just two obnoxious bunholes. Seriously.

It is the oldest of Old Skool romances, complete with a forced seduction via aphrodisiac, a kidnapping to Russia, the heroine being forced to work as the hero’s sister’s maid when she refuses to be his mistress, a second round of the aphrodisiac, a caning, and a secret love child. It is TERRIBLE. It is GREAT.

The recording was originally taken from tape, uploaded to Demonoid where I got it years ago. I have removed some noise and slowed Carol down slightly.

Vintage book cover…it is better than the book, Not the best from Lindsey…..J