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The Reluctant Widow (Literature & Fiction)

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Now playing The Reluctant Widow Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
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The Reluctant Widow (Georgette Heyer) is set up as one continuous listen: cover, runtime, and a chapter list on the same page.

A fateful mistake… Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a edge-of-seat and dangerous adventure. Elinor is rather surprised that her prospective employer is quite rich, and more so at the decayed grandeur of the house to which she is transported. Elinor thought she was entering Highnoons as a governess, but Edward Carlyon, the handsomely fashionable gentleman who carefully interviewed her, obviously needed no governess. Carlyon was seeking a wife-not for himself, but for his young cousin, Eustace Cheviot, the dissipated and profligate owner of the ruined estate, who now lay on his deathbed. Surprised and repulsed as she was by this strange proposal, Elinor was nevertheless unable to resist Carlyon and his mystifying plans. Ned persuades Elinor

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