This was an odd little book.  It’s book number two in the Poor Relations series set in the Regency period, originally published under Marion Chesney, aka M.C. Beaton.  I didn’t read book one, and based on this, I feel I haven’t missed much.  The premise of the series is that several “poor relations” have banded together to run a hotel, which had done quite well but then there was a fire so  financial straits are desperate again.  They draw straws to see which one of […]