Her Fiancé Traded Her to the 'Rotting' Duke to Pay a Debt — He Never Thought She Would Be a Duchess

On a night of storm, a gambler drags his own fiancée into the castle of the feared Duke of Hartwell and says, "My debt is paid. She is yours." For two years Roderick has hidden behind a black veil while the town calls him the Rotting Duke, and his doctor says he will not live to see the spring. But Nora Upton, the daughter of Saltcombe's dead apothecary, is the first person who looks at his hands without fear, and she says the words no one else has dared: "That is not leprosy." Roderick marries her to save her ruined name, expecting to leave her a rich widow by Christmas. Then Nora smells garlic in his medicine cup, and his sickness begins to heal. Someone has been poisoning the Duke for two years, and the men behind it chose Nora on purpose, so the apothecary's daughter would hang for his death. With a smiling cousin, a cold doctor and a lying former fiancé closing in, can a dying duke and the girl who was sold to him save each other before it is too late? #DukeRomance #VictorianRomance #HistoricalRomanceAudiobook #DukeRomanceStory #FullRomanceAudiobook #LoveStoryNarration #MarriageOfConvenience #RomanceAudioStory #ScarredDuke #PoisonPlot #DevonRomance duke romance audiobook, victorian romance full story, historical romance for sleep, rotting duke story, scarred duke romance, sold to the duke romance, fiancé traded her for a debt, marriage of convenience romance, apothecary daughter romance, poison plot romance, duke and commoner love story, full length romance audiobook, clean historical romance, villain cousin heir story, devon castle romance, betrayed bride becomes duchess, proud duke falls in love, hidden duke illness mystery, courtroom reveal romance, happy ending romance story, 1800s love story narration, slow burn duke romance