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‘She got into the wrong carriage. He was the first man who ever asked her what she wished.’
Sybil Danforth has learnt to keep the peace. She knows the correct order in which to greet her fiancé’s relations, the pleasant words that settle a room, and the exact smile that ends a quarrel before it begins. Then, on the morning of her wedding, she hears herself apologise to Lucian Fettes for the look on her maid’s face, and she understands at last what she is becoming.
So, she walks out through the tradesmen’s gate in a plain grey dress, under a name that is not hers, and by nightfall there is a reward of fifty pounds for word of her.
Before dawn, in an inn yard where men are being paid to find her, she opens the wrong carriage door.
Tobias Wren, the Duke of Larchmont, has spent eleven years keeping an estate standing and two younger brothers raised, and he has given away so much of himself that he believes there is nothing left. He does not ask the soaked stranger in his carriage for her name. He only asks whether she wishes to get out.
She does not.
When a washed-out bridge carries her to his door and a printed notice gives her away, the Duke makes her a plain offer. He will marry her in name only, to put her beyond Fettes’s reach for good. She will have her own rooms, her own money, and the only key to the door between them. He promises her his name, and tells her honestly that he has nothing else to spare.
Sybil signs, and adds one clause of her own. After a year, she may go.
But the man who swore he had nothing to give keeps giving it where he thinks no one is watching. He drives forty miles out of his way to show her the sea. He quietly eats the burnt half of his brother’s pudding. And the woman who married for shelter begins to want the very thing she promised herself she never would.
Fettes has not finished with her. When he turns to lawyers and whispers, and the scandal begins to threaten the brothers’ futures, Sybil makes the one choice that protects everyone but herself. Now a duke who has never asked anyone for anything must learn to ask her to stay, and a woman who has spent her whole life being spoken for must stand before the entire county and speak for herself.
A tender, completely clean Regency romance of a marriage made for shelter, a family found by accident, and a woman who finally chooses for herself. A standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully earned happily ever after.
Also available with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
Sybil Danforth has learnt to keep the peace. She knows the correct order in which to greet her fiancé’s relations, the pleasant words that settle a room, and the exact smile that ends a quarrel before it begins. Then, on the morning of her wedding, she hears herself apologise to Lucian Fettes for the look on her maid’s face, and she understands at last what she is becoming.
So, she walks out through the tradesmen’s gate in a plain grey dress, under a name that is not hers, and by nightfall there is a reward of fifty pounds for word of her.
Before dawn, in an inn yard where men are being paid to find her, she opens the wrong carriage door.
Tobias Wren, the Duke of Larchmont, has spent eleven years keeping an estate standing and two younger brothers raised, and he has given away so much of himself that he believes there is nothing left. He does not ask the soaked stranger in his carriage for her name. He only asks whether she wishes to get out.
She does not.
When a washed-out bridge carries her to his door and a printed notice gives her away, the Duke makes her a plain offer. He will marry her in name only, to put her beyond Fettes’s reach for good. She will have her own rooms, her own money, and the only key to the door between them. He promises her his name, and tells her honestly that he has nothing else to spare.
Sybil signs, and adds one clause of her own. After a year, she may go.
But the man who swore he had nothing to give keeps giving it where he thinks no one is watching. He drives forty miles out of his way to show her the sea. He quietly eats the burnt half of his brother’s pudding. And the woman who married for shelter begins to want the very thing she promised herself she never would.
Fettes has not finished with her. When he turns to lawyers and whispers, and the scandal begins to threaten the brothers’ futures, Sybil makes the one choice that protects everyone but herself. Now a duke who has never asked anyone for anything must learn to ask her to stay, and a woman who has spent her whole life being spoken for must stand before the entire county and speak for herself.
A tender, completely clean Regency romance of a marriage made for shelter, a family found by accident, and a woman who finally chooses for herself. A standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully earned happily ever after.
Also available with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical Romance
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