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

temper, and a profound disgust for polite society.

He spent his days managing his vast tenant farms and breeding hounds. He was known to turn away viscounts at his gates.

He certainly had not written to Agatha Hawthorne asking for the hand of her penniless stepdaughter. It was a trap, a meticulously designed humiliation.

Agatha had likely written a letter continue reading …