The Duke's Mother Took the Orphan's Brooch — She Only Said, "Wear It to the Gathering and See Wha...

What would you do if someone took the only thing your mother left you — and wore it proudly in front of the one person who could expose everything? What if that was exactly what you needed them to do? Evangeline Parrish had been a housemaid at Thorngate Manor for three years. She kept her head down, her mouth shut, and her mother's garnet brooch hidden under her collar — until the night she let it show. Lady Dorothea Somerwell, the Duke's mother, took it without a second thought. She had no idea that Evangeline had planned for her to do exactly that. • A young woman raised in poverty discovers a truth about her mother's past — and spends three years quietly building the only plan that could prove it • A stolen brooch becomes the key to an identity that powerful people would rather stay buried • The moment a Marchioness recognizes a piece of jewellery she had made herself — and the woman wearing it has no idea what she has just walked into There are plans made in desperation, and there are plans made in patience. Evangeline had three years. She only needed one evening.