'I Am to Marry Your Dearest Friend,' the Duke Told Her Over Dinner — 'Pass the Salt,' She Said

'I Am to Marry Your Dearest Friend,' the Duke Told Her Over Dinner — 'Pass the Salt,' She Said #periodromance #historicalromance #duke For seven years she managed his great house and won at his chessboard, invisible in her plain gown while the county pushed its heiresses at him. When a proud, guarded duke tests her at his own dinner table with the cruelest lie he can devise, her cool refusal to plead undoes him completely, and he learns too late that it was always her he wanted. A witty, tender period romance about a dowerless companion who never begged for a thing, and the duke who crossed a ballroom to choose her before all of them.