A Duke Worth Reaching

“He buried his wife seven years ago and locked the door. His son has been on the other side of it ever since.”

Three tutors have resigned in four months. The last one left because a boy of seven fed his Cicero under the schoolroom door, one page at a time, in order.

Elinor Wrenfield arrives soaked through and entirely the wrong sex for the post. The Duke of Rothmere asked for a man of firm discipline. What walks into his hall is a governess who works out in ten minutes what nobody else troubled to look for.

The boy is not ungovernable. He is unreached.

Nathaniel Vale has kept the east wing shut since the day his wife was buried, and his son on the other side of it. Elinor came to teach the child. She did not expect the father to start unlocking doors.

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