The Lady Rogue – Jenn Bennett Free Audiobook

Written by Jenn Bennett
Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Jonathan Todd Ross
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 09-03-19
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

“A swashbuckling adventure.” —Booklist
“A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.” —BCCB

The Last Magician meets A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this thrilling, “breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains where a girl must hunt down Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring in order to save her father.
Some legends never die…

Traveling with her treasure-hunting father has always been a dream for Theodora. She’s read every book in his library, has an impressive knowledge of the world’s most sought-after relics, and has all the ambition in the world. What she doesn’t have is her father’s permission. That honor goes to her father’s nineteen-year-old protégé—and once-upon-a-time love of Theodora’s life—Huck Gallagher, while Theodora is left to sit alone in her hotel in Istanbul.

Huck returns from an expedition without her father and enlists Theodora’s help in rescuing him. Armed with her father’s travel journal, the reluctant duo learns that her father had been digging up information on a legendary and magical ring that once belonged to Vlad the Impaler—more widely known as Dracula—and that it just might be the key to finding him.

Journeying into Romania, Theodora and Huck embark on a captivating adventure through Gothic villages and dark castles in the misty Carpathian Mountains to recover the notorious ring. But they aren’t the only ones who are searching for it. A secretive and dangerous occult society with a powerful link to Vlad the Impaler himself is hunting for it, too. And they will go to any lengths—including murder—to possess it.

A review…In 1938, 17-year-old explorer and occult aficionado Theodora Fox goes on the hunt for an ancient relic and her missing father. Theo’s father, Richard, is a wealthy American antiquities collector and adventurer, but when it comes to fathering Theo, he falls short, perhaps consumed by grief since the death of Theo’s Romanian mother, archaeologist Elena Vaduva. But when he leaves her high and dry in Istanbul, Theo suspects trouble. When her former best friend and “more-than-a-friend” Huxley “Huck” Gallagher, whose warm hazel eyes and sexy Northern Irish accent conjure up plenty of memories, shows up in her hotel room after breaking her heart more than a year ago, she’s shocked. Huck, a jack of many trades, has been traveling with Richard and claims he went missing while searching for a powerful ring of bone rumored to have belonged to Vlad Ţepeş, aka Vlad the Impaler. Pursued by shadowy figures and armed with Richard’s journal, Huck and Theo venture deep into Romania in search of her father and the ring before it falls into the wrong hands. Theo and Huck’s witty banter and scorching chemistry are delights, and the independent Theo sparkles with verve and feminist flair. Bennett’s breathless cat-and-mouse tale brings a Europe teeming with magic and verdant history to vivid life. Main characters are white. A captivating caper. (Paranormal historical adventure. 14-18)…. (2019) Kirkus Reviews