The Duke's Midnight Bride
(2026)(The first book in the Marriages Written in Scandal series)
A novel by Elizabeth Everly
"She had given up everything for a child who was not hers. He was the first man who noticed there was nothing left."
Lady Beatrice Ellingham crossed two miles of moor in a storm to knock on the door of the most feared man in England.
She arrived soaked through, holding a seven-month-old boy who was not her son. Her sister is dead. The child's father ruins people for sport. And Beatrice has spent her name, her prospects, and every hope she had left keeping that secret safe.
No one has ever asked what it cost her.
The Duke of Ravenshaw has not opened his house to a living soul in seven years. Cold, exacting, content to let society call him monstrous, Magnus Harrington wants nothing but to be left alone. Then the child's father appears on his gravel at dawn, smiling, asking after a young lady he claims to be concerned for.
So Ravenshaw does the one thing that will put her beyond reach. He announces she is to be his wife.
A marriage of convenience. A shield and nothing more, offered to a woman he is certain will ask him for nothing at all.
She asks him for nothing. That is exactly the trouble.
Because a man who has felt nothing in seven years begins to notice her. That she sits on the floor with the baby. That she has an answer for everything except what she wants for herself.
She made herself small enough to disappear. He is the first man who refused to let her.
A tender, completely clean Regency romance of found family, quiet courage, and a woman who spent herself on everyone but herself. Standalone, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Only a warm and satisfying happily ever after.
Now free to read with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
Lady Beatrice Ellingham crossed two miles of moor in a storm to knock on the door of the most feared man in England.
She arrived soaked through, holding a seven-month-old boy who was not her son. Her sister is dead. The child's father ruins people for sport. And Beatrice has spent her name, her prospects, and every hope she had left keeping that secret safe.
No one has ever asked what it cost her.
The Duke of Ravenshaw has not opened his house to a living soul in seven years. Cold, exacting, content to let society call him monstrous, Magnus Harrington wants nothing but to be left alone. Then the child's father appears on his gravel at dawn, smiling, asking after a young lady he claims to be concerned for.
So Ravenshaw does the one thing that will put her beyond reach. He announces she is to be his wife.
A marriage of convenience. A shield and nothing more, offered to a woman he is certain will ask him for nothing at all.
She asks him for nothing. That is exactly the trouble.
Because a man who has felt nothing in seven years begins to notice her. That she sits on the floor with the baby. That she has an answer for everything except what she wants for herself.
She made herself small enough to disappear. He is the first man who refused to let her.
A tender, completely clean Regency romance of found family, quiet courage, and a woman who spent herself on everyone but herself. Standalone, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Only a warm and satisfying happily ever after.
Now free to read with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
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