The Duke Married Her for Money and Sailed for Vienna — He Came Home to 94 Letters She Never Sent

The Duke of Rushford married Philippa Denholm in a week for her grandfather's money, sailed for Vienna on the next tide, and wrote her four cold lines every quarter for two years. Coming home early and unannounced, Ambrose Tallis lets himself into her sitting room looking for an estate ledger, and finds a round hatbox hidden under her writing table instead. Inside are ninety-four letters, tied in ribbon, every one written to him and never sent. He reads them in order over one week, learning the wife he ignored: the dinners she survived alone, the harbour where she watched his ship leave, the fever she nursed without him. By day she treats him as coldly as his four lines taught her to expect, pouring his tea like a stranger's, while her cousin Robert makes her laugh in a way he never has. What will the Duke give up to become the husband those letters were waiting for? A Regency romance about a cold diplomat and the wife whose love he never let himself see. This is original fiction: every person in it is invented and a grown adult. Subscribe to The Loosened Cravat for more Regency stories.