The Cold Duke’s Hired Bride

“She needed a roof no man could put her out from under. He needed a wife to save an estate from ruin. Neither of them expected love.”

Lady Renae Whitmore was born to a fine name and left with nothing to dress it in. When her father died, she learned that an earl could leave his daughter a courtesy title and not a single shilling, and so she married the only man who wanted the name badly enough to overlook the empty purse. It kept her fed, if it never once kept her warm. Now widowed and quietly cheated of her portion by a grasping cousin, Renae has stopped expecting kindness from the world. She takes the one post left to a gentlewoman with clever hands and no money, housekeeper to a great cold house she has seen only the shabbiest rooms of.

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