"You Are Dismissed," Duke Said — She Curtsied and Left. He Sent Every Carriage in London After Her

"You Are Dismissed," the Duke Said — She Curtsied and Left. He Sent Every Carriage in London After Her At a candlelit dinner before twelve guests, the Duke of Wexley dismisses his ward's governess for gently correcting a baronet's Latin. Harriet Penrose does not argue, weep, or beg. She curtsies to exactly the right depth, thanks him for two years' employment, and is gone with a single valise before the port is poured. Julian Ashcombe has let his mother choose his words since boyhood and has spent a year refusing to notice the quiet scholar at the foot of his table. In the silence she leaves behind, he discovers she was the only thing in the house he ever noticed. By dawn he has sent eleven carriages and sent them down every road out of London with one instruction: find her. But a woman dismissed in public does not come home for the asking. When he finds up with her on an inn bench, reading Cicero, what will it cost a duke to prove he can be taught? duke romance, regency romance, historical romance audiobook, governess romance, clean romance audiobook, victorian romance story, duke and governess, regency love story, historical romance for women, slow burn romance, romance audiobook full length, dismissed governess, duke chases governess, the duke's ward, latin lesson romance, dowager duchess, mail coach romance, regency england 1824, proposal on his knees, sweet historical romance