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

so absurdly presumptuous, so dripping with misplaced desperation that the Duke would explode in a rage. He would throw Norah out into the mud, and by tomorrow, Agatha would ensure the gossip columns in London knew all about it.

The desperate Hawthorne spinster turned away at the gates of Rookwood after throwing herself at a duke. It would finalize Norah’s continue reading …