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The Ruined Duke's Capable Bride
(2026)(The fourth book in the Sensible Marriages series)
A novel by Dorothy Sheldon
‘He needed forty thousand pounds. She arrived with it, and with conditions of her own.’
Piers Chaloner, Duke of Havering, has been refused by three houses in two years. The roof of Ferrers Abbey is failing, the east wing is shut, and the debt his father left behind has a name in it that nobody will say aloud.
Miss Cecily Frayne has kept her father's books since she was seventeen. She has watched eighteen thousand pounds disappear in nine years, and she has decided she will never again live in a house where the money quietly leaks away.
She is not buying a title. She is buying the end of the leak.
So she comes to Wiltshire with her own terms already written: the debt cleared publicly, and the estate accounts in her name for three years. He agrees to every word of it, and she moves into a cold house with a husband who thanks her too often and tells her nothing.
Then a paper surfaces that neither of them made. A bond signed in 1806, by a man the whole county remembers as charming.
He can let it sleep in a registry in Salisbury for the rest of his life. Or he can produce it himself, in front of everyone, and burn his father's name to keep his own clean.
He has twelve days. His wife has already stopped using his Christian name.
A clean Regency romance with a marriage of convenience, a capable heroine, and a happy ever after. No cheating, no explicit content.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
Available now to read free with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
Piers Chaloner, Duke of Havering, has been refused by three houses in two years. The roof of Ferrers Abbey is failing, the east wing is shut, and the debt his father left behind has a name in it that nobody will say aloud.
Miss Cecily Frayne has kept her father's books since she was seventeen. She has watched eighteen thousand pounds disappear in nine years, and she has decided she will never again live in a house where the money quietly leaks away.
She is not buying a title. She is buying the end of the leak.
So she comes to Wiltshire with her own terms already written: the debt cleared publicly, and the estate accounts in her name for three years. He agrees to every word of it, and she moves into a cold house with a husband who thanks her too often and tells her nothing.
Then a paper surfaces that neither of them made. A bond signed in 1806, by a man the whole county remembers as charming.
He can let it sleep in a registry in Salisbury for the rest of his life. Or he can produce it himself, in front of everyone, and burn his father's name to keep his own clean.
He has twelve days. His wife has already stopped using his Christian name.
A clean Regency romance with a marriage of convenience, a capable heroine, and a happy ever after. No cheating, no explicit content.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
Available now to read free with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
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