The Duke Paid Ten Pounds for a 'Silent' Bride — He Went Still When She Answered in Seven Languages

The Duke Paid Ten Pounds for a 'Silent' Bride — He Went Still When She Answered in Seven Languages A reclusive Duke pays ten pounds for a bride he is promised will never speak a single word to him. What he does not know is that she was never mute at all — only silenced, for thirteen years, by a man who beat her for repeating what she overheard. She becomes his convenient, quiet duchess, mocked by his own servants as the "dumb duchess," while foreign envoys plot to cheat him over his own dinner table, certain the silent woman at the foot of it understands nothing. She understands every word, in seven languages. When she finally speaks, everything the Duke believed about the wife he bought — and the peace he thought he wanted — comes undone in a single sentence. But the same silence that saved his fortune may be the very thing her uncle sold her to protect forever. What was he really trying to keep her from saying? duke romance, regency romance, historical romance audiobook, forced marriage romance, marriage of convenience, silent bride romance, duke and duchess love story, regency England romance, slow burn romance audiobook, romance for women over 60, clean historical romance, arranged marriage duke, brooding duke romance, secret language romance, translator heroine, redemption romance story, period drama romance, sweet romance audiobook, historical romance narration, Northumberland duke romance