The Ruined Lady He Never Expected

“She was ruined the moment his brother failed to appear. He was the only man in the chapel willing to stand.”

Helena Fairford let herself believe her luck had turned when Lord Sylvester Birchwood, charming and golden and a duke’s own brother, chose her. Then she stood at the altar in her mother’s made-over gown and understood that it had not.

He never came.

In a single morning Helena loses everything a woman of no fortune has left to lose: her name, her future, her sister’s chances, her mother’s peace. By nightfall she is the only scandal the county cares to speak of.

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