The Legacy Trilogy - Catherine Coulter Audiobook

Written by Catherine Coulter
Read by Maggie McClellan, Monica Buckley, Eleanor Swinden
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

1 Wyndham Legacy
Narrated by: Maggie McClellan

Series: Legacy, Book 1
Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 07-29-08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio

At the age of nine, her half-cousin, Marcus Wyndham, mockingly dubs Josephina Cochrane the “Duchess”. Little does Marcus suspect that the Duchess will one day reign sovereign over his own future? For the Earl of Chase, the Duchess’s father and Marcus’ uncle, leaves a double-edged inheritance, a legacy that will bind their fates.

When the Earl of Chase dies without a son, Marcus stands to inherit his fortune and title. But the old earl, bitter that Marcus escaped the tragedy that claimed the lives of his two sons, has laced his legacy with vengeful stipulations.

But there is another Wyndham legacy, one beyond the Earl of Chase’s rank and holdings - a treasure from long ago that’s shrouded in legend. Before the rival legacies can be settled, the Duchess and Marcus must solve two mysteries - one from the past and one that shadows the present.

2 Nightingale Legacy
Narrated by: Monica Buckley

Series: Legacy, Book 2
Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
Release date: 07-29-08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio

On the eve of her 19th birthday, the vivacious Caroline Derwent-Jones looks forward to being free of her oafish guardian, Mr. Ffalkes. But Mr. Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline and her inheritance, so Caroline must escape.

In her flight, Caroline encounters Lord Chilton of Mount Hawke, Frederic North Nightingale, and finds herself tangled in mystery and romance. And amid murder, enigmatic secrets, and a long-standing tradition of no women at Mount Hawke, Lord Chilton discovers his desire for Caroline.

The second novel in Coulter’s Legacy trilogy is a delightful Regency romance brimming with drama, sex and colorful characters. It’s 1814, and the young, long-haired, brooding Lord Chilton, Frederick North Nightingale, who briefly appeared in The Wyndham Legacy, is on his way from his Cornish castle, Mount Hawke, to London when he stops at an inn for the night. There, he meets the smart, beautiful and feisty 19-year-old Caroline Derwent-Jones, who has just escaped Roland Ffalkes, her lecherous, inheritance-seeking guardian, and is en route to the Cornish home of her aunt, Eleanor Penrose.

North protects Caroline from Ffalkes, who shows up unexpectedly, but she departs before the nobleman can tell her that her aunt, whom he knew, has been murdered. North and Caroline soon meet again, though, and before long he accepts her proposal of marriage-much to the horror of his three misogynist male servants, appalled that the union will break the long-standing tradition of no women living at Mount Hawke.

Coulter complicates her story line with a couple of weak plot twists involving a search for local treasure and the murder of several other women (the killer’s identity and motive, when finally revealed, strain plausibility), but her witty dialogue and bawdy, eccentric characters add up to an engaging, fan-pleasing story nonetheless

3 Valentine Legacy
Narrated by: Eleanor Swinden

Series: Legacy, Book 3
Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
Release date: 07-29-08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Twenty-year-old Jessie Warfield is branded a disgrace for riding as a jockey on her father’s racehorses, wearing men’s clothing, exposing her skin to the sun and, in general, not acting like a lady at all.

James Wyndham, eligible widower and owner of a nearby horse farm, is Jessie’s rival on the racetrack. Outwardly competitive to the extreme with James, she is secretly in love with him. James, having known her since she was 14, sees her only as a little sister, and a bratty one at that.

Together, they are the unlikeliest romantic duo among their native Baltimore riding set. When Jessie sets out to protect James from a marriage entrapment, she ends up compromising her own reputation and is pressured into leaving town. She flees to an unlikely haven: the estate of James’ British cousins, the Earl and “Duchess” of Chase.
There, she is pampered, dressed, and transformed into a lady. Smitten by the new Jessie, James proposes and they marry.

Their new, shared passion results in hideous nightmares - nightmares that soon reveal themselves to be recovered memories of a long-ago attempted rape and murder. And when connections are made between those events and the pirate Blackbeard’s diaries, the hunt is on for his buried treasure.