The Duke’s Runaway Lady

“She got into the wrong carriage. He was the first man who ever asked her what she wished.”

Sybil Danforth has learnt to keep the peace. She knows the correct order in which to greet her fiancé’s relations, the pleasant words that settle a room, and the exact smile that ends a quarrel before it begins. Then, on the morning of her wedding, she hears herself apologise to Lucian Fettes for the look on her maid’s face, and she understands at last what she is becoming.

So, she walks out through the tradesmen’s gate in a plain grey dress, under a name that is not hers, and by nightfall there is a reward of fifty pounds for word of her. 

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