‘He owns ten thousand books he has never read. She is the housemaid who has read every one.’
For four years, Ivy Slade has been invisible. A maid at Wrenfield Park, she keeps her head down, her hands busy, and her secret close: by candlelight, when the great house sleeps, she slips into the duke's library and devours the education a farmer's daughter was never meant to have.
Owen Caldecott, the Duke of Marwick, stopped noticing anything years ago. His servants are nameless. His books sit unopened. His own title is slowly swallowing the man beneath it.
Then he finds a barefoot housemaid in his library at midnight, calling the father of history a gossip, and for the first time in years, he cannot look away.
But a duke cannot love a housemaid. His mother forbids it. Society would ruin her. And the cruel housekeeper who rules below stairs will see Ivy destroyed before she lets a maid rise above her station.
Ivy has spent her whole life making herself small. Owen is about to remind her she was always meant for more.
A heartfelt slow-burn Regency romance featuring a brilliant housemaid, a lonely duke, and a love that proves some hearts are worth breaking every rule for.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully satisfying happily ever after.
Also available with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
For four years, Ivy Slade has been invisible. A maid at Wrenfield Park, she keeps her head down, her hands busy, and her secret close: by candlelight, when the great house sleeps, she slips into the duke's library and devours the education a farmer's daughter was never meant to have.
Owen Caldecott, the Duke of Marwick, stopped noticing anything years ago. His servants are nameless. His books sit unopened. His own title is slowly swallowing the man beneath it.
Then he finds a barefoot housemaid in his library at midnight, calling the father of history a gossip, and for the first time in years, he cannot look away.
But a duke cannot love a housemaid. His mother forbids it. Society would ruin her. And the cruel housekeeper who rules below stairs will see Ivy destroyed before she lets a maid rise above her station.
Ivy has spent her whole life making herself small. Owen is about to remind her she was always meant for more.
A heartfelt slow-burn Regency romance featuring a brilliant housemaid, a lonely duke, and a love that proves some hearts are worth breaking every rule for.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully satisfying happily ever after.
Also available with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
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