A Deal with a Debutante (London’s Most Eligible #1)

A Deal with a Debutante (London’s Most Eligible #1)

Author: Chelsea Bobulski Listening Length: 8h 45m

She’s running from London’s marriage mart. He’s running out of time to save his estate. Neither planned on falling in love–but their hearts have other plans. American heiress Calliope Hart is thrust into London’s high society against her will, all because her mother is determined to marry her off to an aristocrat....

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Edward had not seen his grandfather’s brother in quite some time, although, as is common with older relatives, Edward had always viewed Great-Uncle Aesop as nothing short of ancient, a veritable walking, talking mummy with his long white hair and lined, leathery face.

And so, to Edward, he did not look any different as he stepped down from the Wolseley automobile as he had the last time Edward had seen him, proudly wearing his kilt and brandishing that familiar appendage that had accompanied him as long as Edward had been alive: his trusty ear trumpet.

The dowager countess moved forward to greet him as Great-Aunt Bethilda’s cane appeared, silhouetted in the car door, followed by Great-Aunt Bethilda herself.

Just like her husband’s hearing ailment, Bethilda had never in Edward’s life possessed perfect eyesight, but it had gotten worse since Edward had last seen her.