She Rode His Warhorse Into the Ballroom — In His Family, It Meant "I Do"

Fleeing a brute's grasping hands in a candlelit garden, Cressida Vane leaps onto the only horse she can find — and it happens to be the Duke of Hartwell's famous black charger, unrideable by anyone but him. Unable to stop the animal, she rides him straight through a ballroom window, in front of two hundred stunned guests. Before she can even catch her breath, the Duke's ancient grandmother rises on her cane and declares that by three centuries of Hartwell custom, the lady has just accepted a marriage proposal. Alaric Hartwell, a duke who has spent five years fending off fortune-hunting brides, finds himself staring at a colonel's daughter who wants nothing to do with his title — and everything about her undoes him. As scandal spreads through London and her own father drags her away in shame, will Alaric let convention and gossip decide his fate, or will he finally choose the one woman who never wanted his crown at all? Can an accident three hundred years in the making become the truest love a guarded duke has ever known? duke romance, regency romance, historical romance audiobook, clean romance story, romance audiobook for sleep, duke and colonel's daughter, forbidden love regency, arranged marriage romance, second chance love story, historical romance full story, romance for women over 60, sweet romance audiobook, period drama romance, ballroom romance story, duke falls in love, medieval marriage custom, warhorse romance, Northumberland castle romance, dowager duchess matchmaker, wholesome love story