Sweet Revenge (1989) - Nora Roberts

Written by Nora Roberts
Read by Napoleon Ryan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
· Release date: 04-17-14
· Publisher: Brilliance Audio

At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.

For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents’ fairy-tale marriage. Now she has the perfect plan to make her famous father pay. She will take possession of the one thing he values above all others–The Sun and the Moon, a fabled necklace beyond price.

Yet just as she is poised to take her vengeance, she meets a man who seems to divine her every secret. Clever, charming, and enigmatic, Philip Chamberlain has his own private reasons for getting close to Princess Adrianne. And only when it’s too late will she see the hidden danger…as she finds herself up against two formidable men–one with the knowledge to take her freedom, the other with the power to take her life.

Two Goodreads comments..
’There are only a few books by Nora Roberts that deserve to be called “excellent novel”. Sweet Revenge is one of them. The plot is haunting, the figures are exiting and the authors writing style simply said brilliant. “

“Inter-cultural marriages are always difficult, but the description here of this one was quite black and white, and I was a bit surprised how the father was portrayed as an unmitigated Baddie, with no redeeming features and an apparent incapacity to feel love or compassion. I am not Muslim so I cannot comment on the veracity of the life of women described in the fictitious Islamic country here, but I would imagine it is not far from the truth in some of the stricter Islamic societies, where cultural norms have overtaken actual religious requirements. (All the same, I was feeling pretty grateful to have been born a woman in the West after reading this! I guess that’s my own cultural bias speaking!)”