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  • Written by: Mary Balogh
  • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
  • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Only a Promise

Written by: Mary Balogh
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
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Publisher's Summary

The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, for one of them, striking a most unusual bargain will change his life forever....

Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on...and find a wife so as to secure an heir to his family's title and fortune.

Since her seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the home of her mother's godmother, where she meets Ralph. He needs a wife. She wants a husband. So Chloe makes an outrageous suggestion: strike a bargain and get married. One condition: Ralph has to promise that he will never take her back to London. But circumstances change. And to Ralph it was only a promise.

©2015 Mary Balogh (P)2015 Recorded Books

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This is the last of the 6 Surviver books that i have read.

This was the hardest one for me to listen to. If this was a waltz she would be the lead.. he seems like a very weak man & the other had a strong core about them. I understand it touches on mental health but the way he kept letting her down had me ..
Bored. I loved the others !

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The story continues with the survivor . A strong friendship that pull the story togather

At bit more to the end of the story. May be baby news . All the mail voices sound the same

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Long burn that ends satisfyingly

this wasn't my favourite at first, but by the end I loved it. there was a real emotional truth to the characters that I loved, and due to how the plot is constructed there is very little of the "I'm not worthy!" inner monologue that can plague some other of Balogh's novels.

not sure about the other reviewer's dislike of Ralph ... Honestly I found his character progression more believable than many other male characters, and I thought he was very masculine. You can have emotional depth and still be masculine!

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