Her Stepmother Sent Her to the Duke as a Joke – He Offered Her a Chair Before He Said a Word

estate and ruined in the papers.

Instead, she walked into his study, drenched and shivering, and he did the one thing she never expected. He pulled out a chair.

Rain lashed against the thin glass of the hired hack, bleeding the vibrant greens of the countryside into a muddy, bruised purple. Norah Hawthorne sat stiffly on the cracked leather seat, her continue reading …