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
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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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The grass still damp from the rain and the air feeling cooler than it had in weeks, Calliope gathered on the front lawn with the others, where Edward had set up two sets of small fence posts he called wickets.

Each set was a little more than two feet in height, with twenty-two yards of space between them, known as the pitch, where the batsmen would run to score points.

Atop the wickets sat two rounded sticks that reminded Calliope of spindles.

These were the bails, and the object of the game was for the throwing team (known as the bowlers) to get the batsmen of the opposing team out before they could score too many runs.