What Ales the Earl - Sally MacKenzie

Written by Sally MacKenzie
Read by Justine Eyre
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Series: Widow’s Brew Series, Book 1
· Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
· Release date: 10-23-18
· Publisher: Tantor Audio

Scandal does not define the “fallen” ladies of Puddledon Manor’s Benevolent Home. Instead, it’s a recipe for an intoxicating new future as the women combine their talents—to operate their own brewery and alehouse . . .

When Penelope Barnes arrived at the Home with her young daughter, she discovered a knack for horticulture—and for cultivating the hops needed to produce a superlative pint. She put her scandalous affair with Harry Graham firmly in the past, along with the wrenching pain she felt when he went off to war. After all, she’d always known a farmer’s daughter had no future with an earl’s son. Now she has the pleasant memory of their passion, and she has little Harriet, for whom she would do anything—even marry a boring country vicar . . .

Harry went off to fight for the Crown unaware that his delightful interlude with his childhood friend had permanent consequences. Now he’s back in England, catapulted into the title by his brother’s untimely death. He sorely misses his former life of unfettered adventure, so when he has reason to explore Little Puddledon, he jumps at the chance. But what he finds there is something—and someone—he never knew he’d lost, and a once forbidden love whose time has come, if only he can persuade Pen he’s home to stay . . .

KIRKUS REVIEW..June 15, 2018
Despite the strict social mores of the Regency period, Penelope Barnes has created a safe home for her illegitimate daughter, Harriet, until mean-spirited rumors crack her mask of respectability and her aristocratic lover reappears. …..MacKenzie delivers an engaging plot, and the enlightened moments at the end redeem some mind-boggling choices Penelope and Harry make in the beginning, though a comeuppance for Harriet’s tormentor would have been nice.A fun, heartwarming Regency romance elevated by witty dialogue and a unique concept.