Beatrice Goes to Brighton (The Travelling Matchmaker Series Book 4)

Lady Beatrice Marsham, recently widowed, flees her family's attempts to arrange another unwanted marriage by taking a stagecoach to Brighton. There she encounters Miss Hannah Pym, a traveling matchmaker intent on finding her a suitable partner. Miss Pym has Lord Alistair Munro in mind for Lady Beatrice. However, Munro has heard gossip from society claiming that Lady Beatrice is a heartless flirt. As Miss Pym and the seaside air work to change Lady Beatrice's circumstances, she begins to win over the skeptical lord. Originally published under the name Marion Chesney, this is the fourth book in The Travelling Matchmaker Series by M. C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series.