Falling for a Silent Duke

“Molly Fieldmore is starving to death, and she is being terribly polite about it.”

For nearly a year now, she has been quietly giving her food to her invalid mother. She mends shirts for threepence apiece. She smiles at the neighbours who pretend not to notice how thin her wrists have become. And every single morning, she tells herself she is perfectly fine, until one grey November afternoon, on a muddy lane three miles from home, her body finally decides it has had enough.

The man who finds her in the road is the last person in Hertfordshire she would have chosen.

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