His Enemy Sent Her to the Duke of Falkner as Payment — Never Knowing She Would Become His Salvation

A closed carriage arrives at a duke's door at midnight in a snowstorm, and inside it is a young woman in house shoes with a paper parcel and a note from his worst enemy offering her in settlement of a nine-thousand-pound debt. He refuses, absolutely, to treat her as anything but a guest under his roof — and then she tells him what is in the parcel. What follows is a winter of reckoning, a courtroom that has waited six years, and the discovery that the woman sent to insult him is the only person alive who can save him from himself. #periodromance #historicalromance #duke #regency #romance #lovestory #cleanromance #regencyromance #victorianromance #dukeromance #audiostory #romancestories #storytime #bedtimestory #sentaspayment #debtsettled #notproperty #feareddukeslovestory #broodinghero #revengeandredemption #shipwreck #courtroomdrama #witness #clerkheroine #yorkshire #whitby #winterromance #enemyhumbled #justice #dignity #proposal #treasured #happyending #storiesforwomen period romance, historical romance, duke romance, regency romance, victorian romance, clean romance, wholesome romance, love story, romance audiobook, narrated romance story, sent as payment of a debt, given away to settle a debt, she refused to be property, feared duke, cold duke, brooding duke, duke protects her, unpaid companion, clerk heroine, letter books, memory of burned letters, insurance fraud, coffin ship, shipwreck, dead brother, revenge story, redemption story, mercy over vengeance, enemy humbled, courtroom reckoning, yorkshire moors, whitby, schoolmistress, marriage of equals, marriage proposal, warm ending, happy ever after, stories for older women, long romance story, bedtime romance story