WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1151953230

The Reluctant Widow

Regency romance with a hint of mystery. Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach and finds herself in the middle of a strange family drama. She marries the young, but moribund, Eustace Cheviot, for his inheritance -- at the insistence of Eustace's cousin Ned Carlyon. The next morning she has become a widow and is also caught up in a case of international espionage.

Open All Close All

type

about

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Regency romance with a hint of mystery. Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach and finds herself in the middle of a strange family drama. She marries the young, but moribund, Eustace Cheviot, for his inheritance -- at the insistence of Eustace's cousin Ned Carlyon. The next morning she has become a widow and is also caught up in a case of international espionage."@en
  • "Regency romance with a hint of mystery. Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach and finds herself in the middle of a strange family drama. She marries the young, but moribund, Eustace Cheviot, for his inheritance -- at the insistence of Eustace's cousin Ned Carlyon. The next morning she has become a widow and is also caught up in a case of international espionage."
  • "Penniless Elinor Rochdale, would-be governess, agrees to an audacious plan to save a family's reputation by becoming a bride by midnight and a widow by dawn."@en
  • "Elinor Rochdale has become a governess since the death of her father. When travelling to a new post, she steps into the wrong carriage and is swept into an intriguing and dangerous adventure. Overnight, she is put in charge of a ruined estate and becomes a partner in a conspiracy to save the estate family's name."@en
  • "When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death. His cousin, Mr. Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited guests, and murder. And Mr. Carlyon won't let her leave ..."@en
  • "Penniless Elinor is rather surprised at the carriage that meets her from the stage, and more so at the decayed grandeur of the house to which she's transported. Realizing that there has been a case of mistaken identity she agrees to an audacious plan."@en
  • "Eleanor Rochdale, a young woman of good birth but straitened circumstances, sets out to accept a position as a governess and ends up plunged into a tangle of foreign intrigue instead. What starts out as a simple business arrangement soon becomes much more complicated as housebreakers, uninvited guests, a shocking murder, missing government papers, and a dog named Bouncer all contribute to this lively, frequently hilarious tale of mistaken identities, foreign espionage, and unexpected love set during the Napoleonic Wars."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "History"@en
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Regency fiction"@en
  • "Regency fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiobooks"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "The Reluctant Widow"@en
  • "The reluctant widow"
  • "The reluctant widow"@en

workExample