Three books for one!

This is a combilation of three short stories by three different authors. These are sweet romances so no steamy sex. The are light hearted and a quick read!😊

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Clean Georgian Romance Collection of stories

This is a set of 3 novella length stories by 3 very talented authors. They are each set in the Georgian time period and feature country life, including sheep! I loved the sheep.

The audio narrator is very talented and can perform a range of character voices well. Some of them can be grating, but they are well done. Sometimes I did feel like she was reading with a smile in her voice and was slightly over the top then. But that was a small distraction.

Would recommend.

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I loved these stories!

I was very pleasantly surprised by these stories. Each one was a very easy listen with interesting characters and a great storyline. I love short stories as they don’t drag on like some other books can. I Highly recommend

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Pretty good

These collections are always good for light entertainment. Usually simple, predictable stories because of the length. But clean choices are difficult to keep finding, so I always grab them up. Kim Bretton is a regular narrator on so many of the romance compilations. She’s very good, and really gets the tone correct. She’s upbeat and has good intuition on relaying mood, humor, and nuance during character interactions. On the first story, though, a couple of the characters sounded about 100 years old with crackly voices, even though they were probably in their sixties. I like how she narrates, and it must be difficult to keep coming up with varying voices, so I just pretended they sounded young.

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Miss Smith Goes to Wiltshire - the 3rd novella

The first 2 novellas in this trilogy are fine, but it is the last one that really makes the purchase of this book worthwhile. It is a delightful, happy frolic, with fun characters and situations - and the narrator absolutely makes the best of this material! A great quick pick-me-up. :-)

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3 short stories that feel complete

This book has three wonderful stories and each are complete in the length. All three are lovely love stories. A very enjoyable reading experience!

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Simply delightful!

This trio of stories is simply delightful! Each story introduces the reader to charming characters and a sweet tender romance set amongst the English countryside.
I enjoyed listening to the audio book version and found mystery blissfully whisked away to a bygone era, often to the detriment of the task at hand, and I can honor say that I didn’t mind one bit!
I’d recommend this collection of stories to anyone looking for a delightful collection of stories sure to bring a smile to your face and a warm glow in your heart!

(I received a copy from the publisher. I am not required to write a review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.)

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Sweet Collection!

This book is a sweet collection of true love matches.
I enjoyed the whimsy provided by at least one sheep in each story as well as a few piglets in the last one.
As is common in novellas, things move quickly but I felt very satisfied with this book.

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Very entertaining listen

The three novellas in Her Country Gentleman were a delight to listen to. I enjoyed all three stories. Although short, each had well-developed characters, a good plot, and an enjoyable storyline that featured heroines who each became enamored with a country gentleman.

Spring at Tribbley Hall by Sian Ann Bessey features Charlotte, a spunky heroine who escapes with her grandmother to the country and has a heart-pounding adventure when a sheep thief goes a little too far. Love of My Heart by Sarah M. Eden features Cordelia, forced to relocate with her family to the country where she discovers lovely vistas that inspire her artistic soul and draw her to a kind gentleman farmer. And finally, Miss Smith Goes to Wiltshire by Rebecca Connolly features a young woman who wishes to marry for love, and so is temporarily banished by her mother to the country to visit her aunt. Martha is charmed by the country life and a certain gentleman, and the reader is regaled with humorous scenes between the two.

The narrator Kim Bretton does an excellent job with all the character accents and she brings each story to life, with its lovely heroines and comedic scenes. Very entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this first collection book and I eagerly look forward to the next one.

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Quick and Sweet Low Angst Love in the Country Tale

I’ve enjoyed some of the Timeless Collection anthologies in the past and was particularly jazzed because this was the first Georgian Era set of stories and they were all city girl heads to the countryside romances. Two of the three authors were already delightfully familiar, but I was equally excited for a new to me author and to have a narrator who I’d not experienced, too.

The three novellas were all standalone though they share the same premise of young lady leaving London and into the countryside where they experience the country and a charming romance.

In ‘Spring at Tribbley Hall’, I was tickled that the story includes a suspense element when Lord Cheston’s sheep are being stolen, but the first meeting involving a cute puppy and mistaken identity set the tone and the rest of the romance engineered by William’s mama and Charlotte’s grandmamma was a fabulous start.

From there, ‘Love of My Heart’ has poor Cordelia Wakefield along with her spendthrift family departing expensive London for Scotland and a fresh start. An infamous meet cute takes place between her and a certain farmer, Sebastian. Cordelia won my respect the way she really tried to keep her chin up with such a trying family. Sebastian was a solid man who is not exactly what she thought at first and they were splendid together as was this story.

Finally, ‘Miss Smith Goes to Wiltshire’ has Martha Smith sent off to the country as some sort of punishment that was far from it for Martha who takes to country life like a champ and strikes up a romance with the new Lord Hillier who is working to turn his newly acquired estate around. A sweet romp!

Kim Bretton did a stellar job of matching accent, characters, and the tone of the stories. I settled right into her storytelling and was able to get lost into the world of the stories so that I was reluctant to stop listening.

All in all, I absolutely adored all this love in the country and the time period. Each story was unique and came to romance a little differently, paced nicely, they were well-developed, and were quick in the telling as novellas. If someone wants some sweet and charming historical romances with not much angst, I would definitely suggest this first of the Timeless Georgian collections.

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