Truth and Measure

The Carlisle Series, Book 1

By: Roslyn Sinclair

Narrated by: Abby Craden

What happens when the world's fiercest fashion editor learns she's pregnant—and her distracting assistant is the only one she can turn to? This wildly popular age-gap lesbian romance mixes humor and chaos with self-discovery.

Jules Moretti is newly single, an aspiring writer, and the hyper-competent assistant to the most powerful woman in fashion. It's a tough job, but her ice queen boss won't settle for less than perfection.

Vivian Carlisle helms the internationally revered fashion publication Du Jour. She might be smack in the middle of a messy divorce, but you have to make sacrifices to be the best. That's what she tells herself, anyway.

When the unthinkable happens, Vivian's regimented world is turned upside-down. Her life is about power, success, and dominance—not a baby!

This single, shocking moment throws boss and assistant together into an intimacy neither could have imagined. With their lives in chaos, every day brings a new challenge bigger than the last. But everything will work out . . . just so long as they don't do anything totally ridiculous.

Like fall in love.

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Roslyn Sinclair (P)2022 Tantor

Excellent writing, good performance

It could be me..,Roslyn Sinclair with Abby Craden should be a knock-it-out-of-the-park combination...I liked it but I didn't LOVE it. It's well written and well performed, don't get me wrong. And every review is positive...it's probably just me.

Our ice queen is very frosty with hints as to why, but not very likeable. Our assistant is very capable, very introspective and pretty anxious, and very likeable. The best supporting character comes in towards the end and will make you laugh out loud. She's a gem.

I love ice queen tropes but for me it gets sketchy when they hook up with their underlings. Its a boundary thing and I cringed through 3/4 of the book because, well, it's a boundary thing. That being said, it is addressed eventually.

As for the sensual scenes? My reactions were more of the, "Really?!!!" nature, than those of a melting nature.

Abby, not every chapter ending needs to have the cliffhanger inflection. I love you and your work and probably paid for half of your car with all that I listen to so it's out of love and not being a jerk that I make that recommendation. I'll continue listening even if you change nothing :)

All this being said, I'm going to listen to the follow up book. I bet you I'll LOVE it. So even though I just liked this one, I'm still recommending it.

This will go down as a classic

This series will go down as a classic. Roslyn Sinclair wrote the greatest DWP fanfic, and has now penned an outstanding novel inspired by that fanfic. This audiobook is a must-have.

I've been waiting for this!

I've been waiting for this audio for a while. Ice queen and age gap story. Very entertaining!

So Good…

If you like age gap ice Queen stories, don’t skip this series! This is book 1 and by the end I couldn’t get started on book 2 fast enough!!Well worth the credit. And bonus; Abby Craden!

Loved It

Devil wears Prada but as a love story mingled with self discovery. Definitely ready for the next book!

,Truth is hard to find in fashion land weakness

The characters are so much a gift in this world of couture. Expressing thoughts are not the easiest but as truth comes out so does the inner strength of talented women. Abby Craden makes the listen full of characters to love.

Excellent

What a fun listen. Strong characters with a great storyline. I couldn’t stop listening. I highly recommend.

Good, but story incomplete.

The story ends with so many things unanswered. Of course there is a second book. I like a lot of it, but got a little tired of Jules by the end.

Great story. Perfect narrator.

Story line -great!
Performance- perfect!
Characters - interesting and 3 dimensional. I’ve listened to it three times! I love this book

I couldn’t put it down! Great story!

I’m a big fan of Roslyn Sinclair she is amazing! I read the part one and part two of the books in two days I couldn’t put them down and then I found out there was an audible version. Wow! Abby Craden did an awesome job of narrating the book. And once again, I found myself listening constantly until it was done great book great erotic scenes all in all a great story.