The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas Audiobook (Free)
- Kate Reading
- 10 h 24 min
- Penguin Audio
- 2010-10-28
Summary:
‘Tis the season to get Red! Lauren Willig’s beloved Red Carnation series gets into the holiday soul with this amazing Regency Xmas caper.
Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to state her independence while keeping an eye on her more youthful sisters nearby. Just before Xmas, she accepts a position at the noiseless girls’ college in Bath, looking to face about The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Green Carnation Xmas nothing more thrilling than conducting the annual Christmas recital. She hardly imagines coming face to face with French aristocrats and worldwide spies…
Reginald ‘Turnip’Fitzhugh-often mistaken for the elusive spy referred to as the Green Carnation- provides blundered into danger before. But when he blunders into Miss Arabella Dempsey, it hardly ever happens to him that she might be trouble. When Turnip and Arabella come across a beautifully wrapped Xmas pudding with a cryptic message created in French, ‘Meet up with me at Farley Castle,’ the unlikely vehicle for intrigue launches the pair on the Yuletide experience that ranges from your Austens’modest drawing space to the awe-inspiring property of the Dukes of Dovedale, where the Dowager Duchess is usually hosting probably the most anticipated event of the entire year: a more elaborate twelve-day Christmas celebration. Can they find poinsettias or peril, dancing or danger? Is it feasible that the fate of the English Empire rests in Arabella’s and Turnip’s hands, by means of a festive Xmas pudding?