They Mocked the Substitute Bride at the Altar — Then the Duke Noticed Her Silver Thimble

Maud Ellery is the plain, poor seamstress cousin in the house of proud Lady Clarissa Davenant. Nine years ago, as a girl of sixteen in Brussels after Waterloo, she stitched a wounded officer's arm by candlelight and sang to him through a night of fever, but he never learned her name. Now Clarissa runs off with a captain on the morning of her wedding to Kenneth Thorne, the scarred and silent Duke of Merriton, and Maud is shoved into the gown and sent down the aisle while three hundred guests laugh at the substitute bride. Then the Duke sees the old silver thimble on her wrist, and his face goes white. When Clarissa returns, steals the thimble and claims Maud's story as her own, it will take one quiet question at a grand dinner to reveal the truth. A clean Regency romance narration of a substitute bride, a hidden past and a love found again. duke romance, regency romance, victorian romance, substitute bride romance, jilted duke, runaway bride, wrong bride at the altar, scarred duke, waterloo romance, seamstress heroine, poor cousin romance, marriage of convenience, lost love found, historical romance audio, clean romance narration, period drama romance, wallflower romance, overlooked heroine, wedding day scandal, stolen identity romance, sweet clean romance, audio romance drama, classic romance narration, duke love saga, happily ever after