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Penelope Goes to Portsmouth
- Travelling Matchmaker, Book 3
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Series: The Traveling Matchmaker, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Categories: Romance, Contemporary
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Publisher's Summary
Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perhaps like their handsome travelling companion, Lord Augustus Railton. Penelope, however, thinks Lord Augustus is a ne'er-do-well...Hannah's hopes for adventure, on the other hand, are fulfilled when the coach happens upon a footman who faces hanging for a crime he didn't commit.
M. C. Beaton is the author of the bestselling Agatha Raisin series. She has also written several Regency romance series. She lives between Paris and the Cotswolds.