Changing Fortunes ~ Books 1-9 – M. C. Beaton, Marion Chesney Free Audiobook

Written by M. C. Beaton, Marion Chesney
Read by Lindy Nettleton; Kate Reading; Anne Flosnik; Charlotte Anne Dore; Alison Larkin
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The Westerby Inheritance
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 1
Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 11-18-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
A lady of quality would not wager her honor to restore her family’s fortunes – or would she?

Lady Jane Lovelace has conceived the idea of approaching the most notorious man-about-town, Lord Charles Welbourne, with a most unique proposition. When he counters her offer with a condition that he thinks will halt her impudence, much to the surprise of both, she accepts.

A novel of passion and intrigue, The Westerby Inheritance is a thrilling installment in an emotionally charged romantic saga, all played out against a backdrop of elegant 18th-century society.

[02]

The Loves of Lord Granton
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 2
Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins

Release date: 12-10-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
‘Twas a most odd and unsuitable friendship… and very precious indeed!

As the youngest of four unmarried vicar’s daughters, Frederica feared her destiny was to die of tedium in the sleepy village of Barton Sub Edge. Her looks deemed “unfortunate”, her willful notions damned as “difficult”, she never dreamt the arrival of a rake would challenge her fate in the most surprising way.

For Frederica and Lord Granton, the worldly gentleman from the city, had something in common: boredom. And thus a secret friendship was formed. Frederica lived vicariously through his tales of adventure while he found a delightful respite from the simpering females thrown his way.

But when had their summer idyll turned to love? When had a country miss become a breathtaking lady? Worse, what the devil was a certified rogue who was much too old for her going to do about it?

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The Marquis Takes a Bride
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 3
Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 10-28-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Miss Jennie Bemyss is in a position that any intelligent young lady would envy. The wealthy, worldly Marquis of Charrington has proposed a marriage of convenience that will leave him free to pursue his pleasures and leave Jennie free of his undoubtedly depraved desires.

At the same time, handsome, charming Guy Chalmers, whom Jennie has loved since childhood, proposes to aid her in enjoying her freedom to the fullest.

Jennie should feel happy to be ignored by a man whom she properly should despise. She should feel even happier to be courted by a man whom she has so long adored.
Why, then, does Jennie feel so confused?

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By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 4
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Release date: 02-10-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
She had a long way to go from the wedding to become a wife.

When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry before her spoiled beauty of a sister, she had no idea the “anyone” would be the Marquess of Torrance. Long the darling of the town – and considered quite the confirmed bachelor – he succumbed to Annie’s charms and almost magically made her his wife. But Annie’s lifelong battle for attention had ill prepared her for married life. In a tipsy reverie on her wedding night, she blurted out her real reason for marrying the marquess, and her husband’s formidable pride shut the door on any further communication.

Only a crisis of major proportions could bring the headstrong newlyweds together. And no less than the chancellor of the exchequer, with sinister political ambitions known only to himself, embroiled Annie in a dangerous plot that taught her the truth about her wifely sentiments.

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By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 5
Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 02-27-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Just when he’d fobbed off the last brat, another appeared to take her place!

Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss from schoolroom to marriage mart that he had sworn off women altogether.

The current ward was far and away the worst. Cheeky as only a French girl could be, Yvonne de la Falaise had surely sent her papa to an early grave with her melodramatics and mischief. Thank goodness for her governess, Patricia Cottingham, who was so calm and competent.
But all was not as it seemed, or so Anselm learned and very nearly too late.

[06]

By: M. C. Beaton, Marion Chesney
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 6
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 01-13-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
An innocent beauty takes society by storm – and a worldly lord by surprise.

Morag Fleming, the Countess of Murr, had been bride to the most lecherous lord in Scotland – yet this ravishingly lovely girl had never been touched. Needless to say, she had never borne a child; yet as a young widow she came to London with a fine son in tow.

Her background had left her ignorant of the follies and fopperies of fashion, but soon all of society was at her feet. Most incredible of all, she knew so little about the ways and wiles of love yet set her heart upon none other than the devastatingly handsome, charming, and wealthy Lord Toby Freemantle, who could have any woman he chose and clearly chose not to have her.

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My Lords, Ladies, and Marjorie
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 7
Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Release date: 12-10-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
An Edwardian love story by New York Times best-selling author Marion Chesney.

Miss Marjorie Montmorency-James was lovely, young, and very impressionable. All these characteristics contrived to help her falling love with a certain Lord Philip’s picture when it appeared in the newspaper. Until the day she saw Lord Philip’s photo, she had only fantasized about a mysterious lover whose shadowy features were never quite clear.

Now she had a real live nobleman to dream about.

Little did she suspect that she would soon meet Lord Philip in the flesh. How could she imagine such a thing? After all, what could justify a daughter of the middle class rubbing shoulders with the nobility?

Then suddenly that great day was upon her; she was to meet Lord Philip. But nothing turned out the way Marjorie expected it would. Love – and danger – lay waiting for Marjorie in London.

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Love and Lady Lovelace
By: Marion Chesney
Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 8
Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Release date: 01-07-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
A lord and a lady marry for money in this historical romance by bestselling author Marion Chesney.

When young widow Lady Lovelace realized she had been swindled to near-bankruptcy by her curmudgeonly cousin, she knew she would have to marry again for money.

These were the very thoughts of Lord Philip, who had nothing between him and destitution but his small army pension. And so these two attractive fortune-hunters somehow found each other and, before long, popped into marriage – and into the bridal chamber – only to discover they were both virtually penniless.
What a diabolical situation! What would they do now?

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The Westerby Sisters
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Series: Changing Fortunes, Book 9
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 03-27-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Lady Betty has no interest in the Duke of Collingham. She doesn’t care that he’s fabulously wealthy or devastatingly handsome or impeccably well dressed. All she sees is an arrogant nobleman with an abrasive personality and an annoyingly persistent streak.

And the Duke of Collingham is persistent. He can have any woman in the whole of society – but the one who won’t have him is the only one he wants. And he’ll stop at nothing to persuade her.