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“No one had stayed for Mel Grace since she was sixteen years old, and the most scandalous duke in England was the last man on earth she expected to ask her to.”

Mel is a governess of twenty-six, practical, observant, with no family and no fortune and one quiet certainty no one knows she carries: that hoping for more than she has is the surest way to be disappointed. Her father walked out of her life when she was a girl, and she has not allowed herself to wait for anyone since.

So when Hartfell House in remote Cornwall offers her a generous salary to teach three wild little girls no one else can manage, she takes it expecting nothing. A roof. A wage. Three difficult children she can probably handle. The same arrangement she has had in four other houses.

What she finds is something else.

Annabelle, Viola, and Thistle are six years old, brilliant, and being raised on three days of attention a month from a mysterious benefactor named Mr. Langford. Within a week, Mel has earned their trust. Within a month, she has worked out the truth their benefactor has spent five years hiding. These are not his nieces. They are his daughters. And Mr. Langford is not a quiet country gentleman at all. He is Rhys, Duke of Trevane, London’s most notorious rake, who has spent fifteen years building a fortress of scandal around himself because the truth is too painful to carry alone.

He expected her to leave the moment she discovered it. He did not expect her to stay.

Rhys has never met a woman who looked at him without seeing the title, the fortune, or the scandal sheets. Mel sees a tired father trying to be better than he was raised to be, and she tells him so, plainly, the way she tells everyone everything. And slowly, evening by evening in a study lit by a single fire, the rake and the governess discover that being seen by one honest person is more terrifying, and more healing, than either of them is prepared for.

But society does not let men like Rhys keep secrets forever. And when the truth about his three little girls is finally dragged into the light, Mel will have to decide whether the woman who has spent ten years not waiting for anyone is brave enough, at last, to stay.

A deeply emotional Regency romance about loneliness, healing, found family, and the courage to believe in love again when life has taught you not to hope for it.

Filled with tender moments, slow-burning passion, and a brooding duke no one truly understands, this heartfelt story will stay with you long after the final page.

No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautifully satisfying happily ever after.

“Molly Fieldmore is starving to death, and she is being terribly polite about it.”

For nearly a year now, she has been quietly giving her food to her invalid mother. She mends shirts for threepence apiece. She smiles at the neighbours who pretend not to notice how thin her wrists have become. And every single morning, she tells herself she is perfectly fine, until one grey November afternoon, on a muddy lane three miles from home, her body finally decides it has had enough.

The man who finds her in the road is the last person in Hertfordshire she would have chosen.

Adrian, the Duke of Thornfield, has not spoken a kind word to anyone in ten years. He doesn’t entertain. He doesn’t visit. He certainly doesn’t rescue chattering young women who wake up in his guest chamber and tell him his eyes look like weather. But Molly Fieldmore weighs nothing in his arms, and her quiet bravery, the smile she offers from the mud, the apology she makes for the inconvenience of fainting, lodges itself somewhere behind his ribs and refuses to leave.

He cannot stop riding past her cottage.

He cannot stop hiding medicines beneath the cheese in her hampers, because she is too proud to accept them any other way. He cannot stop, and he doesn’t entirely understand why, until a sharp-eyed aunt and a meddlesome housekeeper arrange for Molly to spend her days at Thornfield, and Adrian discovers that the silence he has hidden inside for a decade is no match for a girl who fills it with stories about wallpaper birds and opinions on local cheese.

Then there is Sir Gerald Pomeroy. The neighbour who calls himself a benefactor. The man whose patience is running out.

The silent duke is going to have to find his voice at last.

Before the world Molly has been holding together by sheer willpower finally falls apart.

A tender, slow-burn clean Regency romance featuring a silent grumpy duke, a starving sunshine heroine, hurt/comfort, found family, a meddling aunt, a fierce housekeeper, and a love that says everything important without ever quite saying it out loud.

No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautifully satisfying happily ever after full of romance.

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Love, legacy, and a ticking deadline: Can Lady Katharine defy destiny for the sake of true love?

Lady Katharine Willenshire faces a daunting deadline per her late father’s will: marry within a year to preserve her family’s heritage. As the youngest Willenshire, this condition’s weight affects her and her siblings’ fortunes. In her third Season, she grapples with the pressing need for a suitable match, torn between familial duty and personal desires.

Timothy Rutherford, a childhood friend of her brother and a secret novelist, harbors a long-standing affection for Katharine. Their shared love for literature draws them closer, even as the ticking deadline looms and societal expectations mount.

As Katharine balances the demands of societal norms and her aspirations for love and intellectual companionship, she faces a pivotal decision. Meanwhile, Timothy contemplates revealing his feelings and his hidden identity, risking all for love.

In a tale where societal dictates clash with hidden passions, Lady Katharine and Timothy must decide if love can prevail against the constraints of duty and time.

* In this novel, a proper lady and a scandalous dance through the whirl of society, charmed by an arranged marriage that leads them to find their true love. An edgy regency romp, it spins a tale without any tricks, one where looks are exchanged, moments are stolen, and a sweet ending. An enchanting regency romance of over 60,000 words.
No cheating, no cliffhangers.

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Wreathed in the scents of summer she comes, all peach-perfect skin, sweet smile, eyes of periwinkle blue. Her heart filled with compassion, she looks past his scars and into his very soul, bringing hope and comfort where there was none. Has cruel fate sent him the chance of true love at last?

Tragedy has robbed Emerson Lake, Duke of Edenvale, of his beloved family, but he blames himself for their deaths. Wracked by guilt and terribly scarred from the fire that stole his beloved mother and brother, he knows he must pay. Years spent as a recluse have transformed him into a wrathful monster, whose scars send children crying and women running. Is he doomed to a life of miserable loneliness? Or can a certain lady turn his torment to love?

Modest, compassionate beauty Kate Cooper, an impoverished earl’s daughter, works as a paid companion. Freshly unemployed, convinced she’s an old maid bypassed by love, she’s thrilled to be hired by the elderly Bellmores. She happily joins them in their rented summer home on the beautiful Angelfield estate. Out walking one day, Kate gets lost and encounters an angry, monstrous man with a scarred face, who throws her off his land. Turns out he’s the reclusive Duke of Edenvale, owner of Angelfield estate. Kate vows to avoid him at all costs. But when a wealthy young viscount pursues her, she just can’t get the monstrous duke out of her head.

*If you like engaging characters, heart-wrenching twists and turns, and lots of romance, then you’ll love ”The Notorious Scarred Duke of Edendale”!

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