He Left His Unwanted Bride in a Ruined Abbey — Years Later Every Tenant Answered Only to Her

On their wedding night, the proud Duke of Kingsmere drives his poor, unwanted bride Jane Ashdown to a roofless ruined abbey on the edge of his lands, leaves her with one old servant and no money, and returns to London without looking back. Jane refuses to cry. She opens a school, feeds hungry children, and quietly records every penny the cruel steward Mr. Walter Crowther has stolen from the tenants, even after his men burn her schoolroom and his letters tell the Duke she has run wild with a farmer. Three years later, Leopold Wainwright rides north with annulment papers and orders the tenants to clear the abbey, but a hundred farmers walk past him and stand behind his wife, answering only to her. Watch a cold Duke learn the truth, tear up the papers, and beg the woman he abandoned to teach him how to love. A clean Regency romance narration about courage, justice, and a hard-won happily ever after. duke romance, regency romance, victorian romance, abandoned bride, unwanted wife, arranged marriage romance, cold duke romance, duke regrets, vicar daughter romance, ruined abbey, annulment romance, second chance love, clean romance narration, historical romance audio, period drama romance, overlooked heroine, kind heroine, evil steward, tenants loyal to duchess, duke falls in love, slow burn romance, sweet clean romance, audio romance drama, love saga, duke love saga