The Duke Spoke Latin to Mock His 'Dull' Maid — He Froze When She Corrected His Grammar

The Duke Spoke Latin to Mock His 'Dull' Maid — He Froze When She Corrected His Grammar A duke amuses his scholarly friends by mocking his housemaid in Latin, certain she cannot understand a word of it. Then she sets down the tray, corrects his grammar in flawless Latin, and walks out before he can find his voice. Piers Wentworth, Duke of Harlech, has never once been outmatched in the one language he thought was entirely his own — until Ruth Askew, a dead classics master's daughter, proves she was never the dull girl he took her for. What begins as a joke at her expense becomes a reckoning he cannot undo: a library to catalogue, a mistake in his own published work to admit, and a truth about who she really was to him, long before either of them wore the clothes they wear now. How far will a proud duke go to earn back the respect of the one woman clever enough to see straight through him? duke romance, regency romance, historical romance audiobook, romance short story, victorian romance, forbidden love regency, duke and housemaid romance, enemies to lovers regency, historical romance for women, clean romance audiobook, romance narration, sweet historical romance, duke falls in love, secret past romance, classics scholar heroine, latin romance story, regency england romance, slow burn historical romance, HEA romance story