The Black Diamond

By: Andrea Kane

Narrated by: Flora MacDonald

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

For three generations, the curse of the black diamond has haunted her family. Now one woman will try to eliminate it once and for all - but how much is she willing to sacrifice?

Aurora Huntley would rather die than shackle herself to a man she does not love. Powerless to outwardly defy her brother's decree for her marriage, the unconventional noblewoman devises a wickedly outrageous plan. But her scheme backfires when she conspires with a charismatic stranger to orchestrate her fall from grace...and learns who her lover-to-be really is.

Julian Bencroft, the new duke of Morland, did not know that he would share a soul-stirring kiss with Aurora Huntley when he agreed to help her free herself from an arranged marriage. Now he is sworn to combat the long shadow of the diamond that has cursed her family for generations. As he and Aurora embark on a quest for the priceless gem, they plunge into a hotbed of intrigue and deception...and realize how much they'll risk for a love beyond price.

©1997 Andrea Kane (P)2014 Audible Inc.

a gem of a story.

Entertaining story line and character development with a bit of a magic seerer. The book evolves around a 60 year mystery of a missing black diamond that left rumors and accusations that pitted two families against each other.

The third generation will decide to solve the mystery of the missing black diamond and clear the names of both families.
I enjoyed this story and it is one of my favorites from this author.

As to Narration, we'll it was OK. The voices took some getting use to, especially the female ones.
Not a favorite person to do narration.

Apart from the ok narration, this story was truly entertaining.

The black diamond

This audio book is a pretty great romantic adventure! the characters were interesting and entertaining, but there is a challenging mystery for them to solve!

quite enjoyable

i found this a clever enjoyable book. I liked both of them, but this was more fun.

great book to listen to

I love the different characters that played in this book. I also enjoyed the suspense of knowing what was going to happen next. but I did figure everything out before the book got through. but I love the characters

Outstanding! Exciting! Suspenseful, Daring, Racey,

Absolutely loved the story! The narrative could have been better but the story was good enough you will overlook the narrator. There were some parts that had me on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next and others that had me laughing out loud. gonna have to buy the printed copy of this one so I can enjoy it it again without someone else's pronunciations and mis accentuating interfering with the plot.

Such a great book

The story was magical the narration was excellent there was thrilled there was love there was sadness there was excitement I truly enjoyed this book

sweet story, difficult to listen to narrator

delightful story, full of suspense, laughter and love. characters better than in first book, too bad that narrator is annoying

Horrible narration!!!

Good story but skipped through a lot due to narration.

Natator is awful.
Her women's voices all sounds like Minnie Mouse. She uses inappropriate voice inflection for the context of the scene continuously throughout the story. She often carries syllables far longer than what they should be, totally dragging on words to give more meaning, but at inappropriate times in relation to what's going on. And since she can do an ok male voice, of which all sound like elderly men, she could certainly make the women's voices sound less like abnormally high pitched 7 year old girls.

Not my Favorite Narrator

I enjoyed the story but I could not get past the narration. It took awhile but after going back several times I finished it. I took 2 other books off my wishlist with this narrator as I just don’t enjoy listening to her.

A very shallow and predictable story

The book was ok, but too mundane with a forced mystery solved to conveniently with any excuse for sex.