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A Betrothed for the Guarded Duke:A Historical Regency Romance Book (Lords in Waiting 3)
You do not remember me at all, do you, Your Grace?
I remember a girl in a rose garden. I did not expect her on my doorstep thirteen years later.
Cordelia Marchmont has thirteen shillings, a young brother to raise, and a single faded promise to her name.
When her father dies leaving no fortune and no will, all Cordelia finds is a packet of letters and a contract sealed in a rose garden the summer she was ten, and a small pearl ring she has worn on a chain at her throat ever since. By its terms, she was promised to a boy of twelve who is now the Duke of Ravensmere: a man who, in all the years since, has never written, never called, and has very likely forgotten she exists.
With her cold-hearted uncle determined to marry her off to a gentleman thrice widowed and more than fifty, Cordelia does the only thing left to her. She sells her mother’s brooch, boards the northbound coach, and travels to Yorkshire to remind a duke of a promise he would much rather forget.
But a shabby bonnet is turned away at the great house’s door. So when a position opens for a governess to His Grace’s grieving young ward, Cordelia takes it under a borrowed name, telling herself it is only until she can place the contract in his hands.
She does not expect the quiet, careful man behind the duke’s cold reputation. She does not expect the lonely child who slowly begins to bloom under her care. And she most certainly does not expect the duke to begin looking at his ward’s governess as though he is trying very hard to remember where he has seen her before.
A promise made by their fathers. A secret she cannot keep forever. And a love that neither of them ever planned to find.
A heartfelt Regency romance featuring a forgotten promise, a governess in disguise, and a duke who discovers that true love is worth remembering.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully earned happily ever after.
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The Cruel Duke’s Practical Duchess: A Historical Regency Romance Book (Sensible Marriages 2)
“No one had truly looked at Josephine Woode in years, and the man who finally did was the one they all called cruel.”
For eight long years, Josephine has been a governess, raising other people’s children, wearing the grey dress that lets the world look right through her. She has trained herself to want nothing she cannot earn, and to ask for nothing at all.
Then, across a windy churchyard one Sunday morning, the Duke of Blackmere meets her eyes and does not look away.
Jack Harrod is the most hated man in the county. The papers say he tore down a village out of cruelty. The drawing rooms say worse. He has never once defended himself, because the truth he carries is too heavy to hand to strangers. He has lived alone for so long that he has forgotten what it feels like to be looked at without fear, and a governess in a grey dress, who looks back at him as though he were simply a man, undoes something in him he thought was permanently fixed.
When a quiet country vicar suggests the unthinkable, Josephine finds herself agreeing to a marriage that was never meant to be more than practical. Separate wings. Mutual respect. An heir, in time. And yet, evening by evening, in the library of a cold Northumberland hall, two people who had each given up on being known begin to know each other.
But the Duke has a cousin who has spent his whole life waiting to inherit, and who will spread any rumour and ruin any reputation to take what he believes is his. If Josephine wants to keep the first home she has ever truly belonged in, she will have to step out of the shadows she has lived in for years and let the whole county finally see her.
A clean, slow-burn Regency romance about the man no one understood and the woman no one noticed, and the quiet, ordinary courage of choosing each other in plain sight.
If you love historical romances filled with unforgettable characters, healing hearts, and marriage of convenience, The Cruel Duke’s Practical Duchess is a story you won’t want to miss.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
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