02049cam a2200397 i 4500 1690769555 TxAuBib 20241101120000.0 201022t20181993||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982525620 paperback 1982525622 paperback TxAuBib rda Beaton, M. C.,. Mrs. Budley falls from grace / M. C. Beaton. Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2018. ©1993. 167 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Poor relation series (Teal) ; 3 First published under the name Marion Chesney in 1993. "Elizabeth Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. So when the poor relations need to acquire some valuables to keep the hotel afloat and Eliza draws the short straw, Lady Fortescue reminds the others that Mrs. Budley has no relatives on whom she can call. Gentle Mrs. Budley thinks she has excaped her fate until Sir Philip comes up with a plan. He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative or not. So off Mrs. Budley goes to the bleak castle, where the marquess turns out to be not so old, hardly senile, and, in fact, quite handsome."--Page 4 of cover. 20241101. Widows Fiction. Hotels Fiction. Thieves Fiction. Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction. Poor Relation Hotel (London, England : Imaginary place) Fiction. Man-woman relationships England Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Regency novels. gsafd Love stories. Romance fiction. fast Poor relation series (Teal) ; 3.