A Betrothed for the Guarded Duke

“You do not remember me at all, do you, Your Grace?”

“I remember a girl in a rose garden. I did not expect her on my doorstep thirteen years later.”

Cordelia Marchmont has thirteen shillings, a young brother to raise, and a single faded promise to her name.

When her father dies leaving no fortune and no will, all Cordelia finds is a packet of letters and a contract sealed in a rose garden the summer she was ten, and a small pearl ring she has worn on a chain at her throat ever since. By its terms, she was promised to a boy of twelve who is now the Duke of Ravensmere: a man who, in all the years since, has never written, never called, and has very likely forgotten she exists. 

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