Lady Osbaldestone’s Plum Puddings: Lady Osbaldestone’s Christmas Chronicles, Volume 3: 1812 Audiobook (Free)
- Helen Lloyd
- 7 h 54 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2020-01-16
Summary:
#1 NY Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you the delights of a long-ago country-village Christmas, having a grandmother, her grandchildren, an artifact hunter, the girl who catches his attention, and three ancient coins that pull them all collectively in a Christmas treasure hunt.
Therese, Woman Osbaldestone, and her household again welcome her younger daughter’s kids, Jamie, George, and Lottie, plus their cousins Melissa and Mandy, most of whom possess insisted about spending the about Lady Osbaldestone’s Plum Puddings: Female Osbaldestone’s Xmas Chronicles, Quantity 3: 1812 three weeks ahead of Christmas at Therese’s home, Hartington Manor, in the town of Little Moseley.
The children want forward to the village’s traditional events, and this year, Therese has arranged a fresh distraction-the plum puddings she and her staff are building for the whole village. But while washing the cash donated as the puddings’ good-luck tokens, the kids discover that three aren’t coins of the realm. When consulted, Reverend Colebatch summons a pal, an archaeological scholar from Oxford, who confirms the coins are Roman, raising the possibility of a Roman treasure buried someplace near. Unfortunately, Professor Webster can be facing a deadline and cannot assist in the search, but together with his niece Honor, he will stay in the town, writing, remaining designed for consultation if the kids and their helpers uncover even more treasure.
It soon becomes very clear that discovering the source from the coins-or even which villager donated them-isn’t an easy matter. Then your children come across a personable gentleman who understands a great deal about Roman antiquities. He introduces himself as Callum Harris, plus they agree to enable him to greatly help, and he gets their search back on track.
But as the manor five, assisted by the gentlemen from Fulsom Hall, scour the town for who had the cash and search the countryside for indications of excavation and Harris combs through the village’s country-house libraries, amassing evidence of a Roman compound somewhere near, the site from which the coins actually came remains a frustrating mystery.
Then Therese recognizes Harris, who’s more than he’s pretending to be. She also records the romance burgeoning between Harris and Honor Webster, and given the girl doesn’t understand Harris’s full name, let alone his fraught romantic relationship with her uncle, Therese guidelines in. But while she can engineer an effective resolution to 1 romance-of-the-season, as well as a reconciliation lengthy overdue, another romance that strikes very much closer to home can be beyond her ability to manipulate.
Meanwhile, the search for the source of the coins continues on, but time is jogging out. Can Therese’s grandchildren and their Fulsom Hall helpers locate the Roman merchant’s villa Harris is sure lies near before they all must keep the community for Christmas with their families?