Cecilia, Martha Keyes
Cecilia, Martha Keyes
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Cecilia

Author: Martha Keyes

Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Paradigm Press

Published: 07/01/2022

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.

About Stevie Zimmerman

Stevie Zimmerman is a British voiceover artist and narrator who has been voicing audiobooks, commercials, e-learning, and narrations for over a decade. The voice of around three-hundred stories, ranging from historical and regency romances to self-help and nonfiction, she has a background in theatre and an ongoing professional career as a director.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosemary on July 28, 2024

An overlong but wonderfully bittersweet novel of social realism replete with astonishing plot twists, excellent characterisation and uneven writing. Although the reader’s patience will certainly be tested at times, Burney offers a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century manners and preoccupation......more

Goodreads review by Dangermousie on May 08, 2013

I happen to love this book more than the combined works of Jane Austen (blasphemy, I know). While lacking Austen's sparkling style, I find this book has emotional connection and focus on social issues than I find lacking in Austen's works. It's probably my favorite 18th century novel, in fact. The st......more

Goodreads review by Justin on October 01, 2015

We need to get a couple of things out of the way before I get to the proper review. i) This is too long. ii) This shouldn't be read the way you'd read a Hemingway novel--sitting down and intensely fretting through the intense pages of intensity. This should be read the way you watch a TV series: a f......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on December 09, 2008

Cecilia Beverly is a young orphan whose relatives left her with a large fortune, three quarelling trustees, and a mind of unsurpassed delicacy and gentility. The first volume is set during the tumultuous time Cecilia spent with one trustee, who "borrows" huge sums of money from her and eventually ki......more

Goodreads review by Sotiris on November 26, 2018

The author of this book is believed that had a great influence on later writers, and this becomes even more apparent in this, which is known amongst others because of this comes the phrase pride and prejudice that I believe something reminds you. Of course, the influence is not limited to one phrase......more

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