She Gloated as She Took the Late Duchess's Place — She Had Also Inherited the Duchess's Enemy

For ten years Celia Emsworth was the poor cousin her aunt treated like a servant, so when she married the cold Duke of Coldridge she did something no one expected. At the wedding breakfast she sat down in the dead duchess's chair and smiled at the women who had mocked her. That night a black ribbon lay on her pillow with a note: "She sat there too. She is in the churchyard now." Hadrian, Duke of Coldridge, knows that handwriting. It hunted his first wife for six months before she fell from the tower walk in a storm, and half of Lancashire still believes he pushed her. Now a saddle strap is cut on the moor road, a locked room bursts into flames, and a sweet nightly gift turns out to be poison. When the enemy finally shows a face, it is the last face the Duke would ever suspect, and the trap is set to hang him. Can a proud widower learn to trust the sharp-tongued bride who refuses to be the next quiet victim, before the assizes take everything? #DukeRomance #RegencyRomance #HistoricalRomance #RomanceAudiobook #DukeStories #RegencyMystery #MarriageOfConvenience #ColdDuke #SecondWife #LoveStoryNarration #FullLengthRomance duke romance audiobook, regency romance full story, cold duke romance, second wife romance story, marriage of convenience duke, widowed duke love story, regency mystery romance, poor relation becomes duchess, duchess enemy story, poisoned chocolate regency, lancashire historical romance, 1820 regency story, tower murder mystery romance, villain exposed in court, duke saves his wife, clean historical romance, sweet regency romance, romance story for sleep, long romance audiobook, duke and poor cousin, betrayal and revenge romance, happy ending love story, sweeping historical drama, duke stories full length