Where to Start with Mary Jo Putney
- Best entry point → The Marriage Spell
- Start the Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer series → Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
- What fans keep coming back to → Never Less Than a Lady
- Best narrator for Mary Jo Putney → Stolen Magic
- Highest rated by listeners → The China Bride (The Bride Trilogy #2)
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Never Less Than a Lady
The Lost Lords • Book 2
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.89 ABR Score (6.2K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (5.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (586)9h 27m listening time • Released 2011Simon Prebble brings perfect restraint to a romance about two damaged people rebuilding trust—his narration lets the emotional vulnerability land harder than any breathless delivery ever could.
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The China Bride
The Bride Trilogy • Book 2
Narrated by Davina Porter
★ 3.89 ABR Score (2.3K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (2.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (49)11h 56m listening time • Released 2021Davina Porter's layered narration captures a woman caught between two worlds with such emotional nuance that her internal struggle becomes the real love story. A sweeping historical romance that earns its emotional weight.
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Stolen Magic
Guardians • Book 2
by M.J. Putney, Mary Jo Putney
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.70 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)★ 3.82 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.1 Audible (217)12h 30m listening time • Released 2007Simon Prebble's measured, aristocratic delivery perfectly anchors this magical enforcer caught between duty and desire—he makes the moral ambiguity feel personal and urgent.
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The Marriage Spell
Stone Saints • Book 1
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.66 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)★ 3.73 Goodreads (1.4K) ★ 4.14 Audible (338)11h 10m listening time • Released 2007Simon Prebble's narration transforms this Regency fantasy into something genuinely spellbinding, capturing both the restrained desire and magical danger that crackle between two people who shouldn't want each other.
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Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher
Narrated by Phil Gigante, Michael Page, Susan Duerden, Julia Whelan
★ 3.57 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 3.76 Audible (190)19h 39m listening time • Released 2011
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