Who Speaks for the Damned, Audiobook

Who Speaks for the Damned, Audiobook (2020) C.S. Harris narrated by Davina Porter (Sebastian St. Cyr #15)

Set in London in 1814

It’s a bad combination, in my experience—arrogance and wounded pride. It sours a man.

You’d think at her age she’d be done with breeding, but she keeps popping them out. Claiborne says I’m being indelicate to speak of such things, but I’ve no patience with these modern missish ways. Calling breeches ‘unmentionables’ and blushing at the mere mention of a chicken thigh. What next?

They’re impossible people to deal with, you know—the Chinese, I mean. They insist we pay for their silks, porcelains, and tea with silver because they have no interest in anything Europe produces. And the one thing we could use to trade with them, opium, they refuse to allow into the country.

Characters: Sebastian St. Cyr (Devlin), Alistair St. Cyr (Hendon), Sir Henry Lovejoy, Tom, Paul Gibson, Charles Lord Jarvis, Hero Jarvis, Jules Calhoun, Henrietta Dowager Duchess of Claiborne, Nicholas Hayes, Earl of Seaford, Grace Calhoun, Gi

Publisher: Recorded Books

Rating: 7.5/10

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