The Scandalous Marriage

The Desirable Duchess

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

Lovely Alice Lacey was a true incomparable, and her marriageto the Duke of Ferrant was the event of the season. Almost no one realized,however, that Alice was secretly in love with someone else—or that she hadconfided her feelings to a clever talking mynah bird who announces these intimacies at the moment of the couple’s wedding.

Now the gossip... Read more »

Her Grace’s Passion

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, is virtually a prisoner of her cruel husband, who romances his mistress right under the duchess’ nose. Her onlyjoy is dreaming of the handsome Earl of Torridon—for like her, he is trappedin a horrid marriage and longs to find true love and happiness.

Though she secretly wishes for the death of her unkindhusband,... Read more »

Pretty Polly

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

In this whirlwind series, Marion Chesney brings us spirited, independent women who are bewitching, beguiling, and determined to make their mark on the world.

Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with thelesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband,namely the dashing Duke of Denbigh, she needed Miss... Read more »

Pretty Polly

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with thelesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband,namely the dashing Duke of Denbigh, she needed Miss Verity Bascombe. Surely themodest chit would be honored to write her love letters.

Poor Verity! Her old schoolmate was as selfish as ever. Butthe lovely girl’s... Read more »

The Sins of Lady Dacey

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

The local society could only speculate how a pair ofturtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she wouldattempt to corrupt them—an act that both Pamela Perryworth and HonoriaGoodham would see as welcome entertainment in their rigid, joyless lives.

Though Mrs. Perryworth is married—most unhappily—and theyoung Honoria... Read more »

My Dear Duchess

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

Handsome, dashing Henry Wright, the Duke of Westerland,needed a wife in a desperately short period of time. If he could not find awife, he would lose the legacy he so desperately desired.

Young, lovely, but sheltered Miss Frederica Sayers needed ahusband just as much as Henry Wright needed a wife, only she needed a husbandto save her from the... Read more »

Lady Lucy’s Lover

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

“Why don’t you take a lover, my dear? It would serve that fecklesshusband of yours right.”

“But I don’t want a lover. I am in love with my husband.”

Poor deluded Lucy. She married a gambler, a womanizer, and adrunkard, and she refuses to admit that his frequent overnight absences are ofsignificance. It is not until he reveals that Lucy’s parents... Read more »

The Scandalous Marriage

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, LucyBliss was told she’d make an excellent clergyman’s wife.

Her mother had loftier aspirations, however, for herlovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke, more specifically,the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. “Lucifer” Wardshire was rumored to be as wicked as the devil,... Read more »