A Cold Duke’s Spinster Bride

“He has buried his heart behind duty and silence. She has survived by asking for nothing at all.”

At two-and-thirty, Margaret Hartwell knows exactly what she is: a spinster, a paid companion, a woman whose worth lies in competence rather than beauty or hope. When she accepts a position at the forbidding Blackmere Hall, she expects only three months of difficult service to a dying duchess ,and a cold, distant employer who barely acknowledges her existence.

What she does not expect isNathaniel, Duke of Blackmere.

Withdrawn, precise, and ruled by unyielding self-control, the duke lives as though warmth itself were a failing. Haunted by grief and bound by duty, he has reduced his life to rules, contracts, and isolation ,until his formidable aunt forces him into an arrangement he cannot escape.

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