The Adventuress - A House for the Season (Paperback)

M. C. Beaton (author)

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Paperback 208 Pages / Published: 07/03/2013

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The fifth book in M.C. Beaton's charming A House for the Season series.

Appearances can be very deceptive...

At first, Emily Goodenough and her uncle are exactly what the servants at No. 67 Clarges Street are hoping for: respectable tenants to usher in an uneventful Season. But all is not what it seems and it's not long before Rainbird the butler uncovers their secret: Mr Goodenough is an ex-butler and his 'daughter' a runaway chambermaid!

Rainbird's resolve is tested, however, when he learns of villainous Mr Percival Pardon's plot to unmask the pair and force his attentions on Emily. So the staff join forces with their former fellow servants in a scheme to make the Goodenoughs Society's darlings, foil Mr Pardon's plot, and snare the man of her dreams for Emily in the bargain!

'Romance fans are in for a treat' - Booklist

'[M. C. Beaton] is the best of the Regency writers' - Kirkus Reviews

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781780333090
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 116 g
Dimensions: 114 x 179 x 14 mm

M. C. Beaton

A favourite with Waterstones booksellers, Scottish author M (Marion).C (Chesney). Beaton actually began her career in a bookshop, working in the fiction department of John Smith & Sons Ltd in Glasgow. After working for several years as a journalist, she moved to the United States and began writing regency romances. After penning more than a hundred, she decided to turn her hand to detective fiction, writing under the name M.C. Beaton and wrote the first of her popular Hamish Macbeth series before – in the early nineties – starting her best-known series Agatha Raisin about a retired advertising executive with a talent for solving crime.

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