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Start giftingMrs. Budley Falls from Grace
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Learn moreThe loveable characters from the Poor Relation Hotel return in this sparkling and adventurous Regency romance from M. C. Beaton.
Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. So when the poor relations need to acquire some valuables to keep the hotel afloat and Eliza draws the short straw, Lady Fortescue reminds the others that Mrs. Budley has no relatives on whom she can call. Gentle Mrs. Budley thinks she has escaped her fate until Sir Philip comes up with a plan. He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative or not. So off Mrs. Budley goes to the bleak castle, where the marquess turns out to be not so old, hardly senile, and, in fact, quite handsome.
M. C. Beaton has won international acclaim for her New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries. The BBC has aired 24 episodes based on the series. Beaton is also the author of the bestselling Agatha Raisin series, which will air as an eight-episode dramatic series on Sky1, starring Ashley Jensen. She lives in the Cotswolds with her husband. For more information, you can visit MCBeaton.com.
Davina Porter has recorded more than 100 audiobooks in nearly 25 years, and she's garnered numerous Earphones awards. In 2006, she was an Audie winner for Best Female Narrator, and she was named Best Narrator for Inspirational Literature in 2004. Davina has read everything from classics like Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to titles such as Diana Gabaldon's A Breath of Snow and Ashes and Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories. She has also appeared on stage at the Vineyard Playhouse and The Square One Theater, among others.
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“Nicely atmospheric…Most notable for its gentle humor and adventurous spirit.”
“When funds are particularly low at the Poor Relation Hotel,…the timid, widowed Mrs. Budley is sent off to the country home of a doddering, dying fellow who does not know his relatives from a bedpost,…[but] Mrs. Budley winds up captivated by the company of the young new heir. Of course, all ends well, as in Chesney’s previous Regencies.”
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