The Grieving Duke Had Not Smiled in Seven Years — Until His Clumsy New Bride Fell Into His Arms

The Grieving Duke Had Not Smiled in Seven Years — Until His Clumsy New Bride Fell Into His Arms For seven years the Duke of Brambrook has worn black, shut up half his great Lancashire house, and never once smiled. He marries a poor vicar's daughter only to quiet his lawyers about an heir. Diana Blackwood agrees for her four younger sisters' sake, and she expects nothing. Then, four hours after the wedding, she trips on the great stair and lands straight in his arms, with her bonnet on his head, and the whole household watches the frozen Duke begin to smile. But not everyone at Brambrook Hall wants the house to wake up. As Diana's accidents grow stranger and more dangerous, and the tenants whisper about rents no one explains, Reginald starts asking questions he has avoided for years. When a cruel trick makes him doubt her for one terrible second, can he win back the woman who taught him to laugh? duke romance, regency romance, historical romance audiobook, clean historical romance, grieving widower duke, marriage of convenience romance, regency England romance, historical romance for women, romantic audio drama, slow burn regency romance, clumsy bride romance, lancashire regency story, vicar's daughter and the duke, second marriage romance, sacred romance saga, victorian romance story, sweet historical romance, duke love story