The Ruined Duke’s Capable Bride

“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.

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