The Duke Mourned Her for Five Years — Then Found Her Scrubbing His Floors

The Duke Mourned Her for Five Years — Then Found Her Scrubbing His Floors For five years, the Duke of Ashbourne wore only black, mourning the fiancée the sea stole from him off the Cornish coast. He kept her room untouched, refused every match his mother arranged, and carried her painted face in a locket against his heart. Then a newly inherited house calls him to Cornwall, where he passes a housemaid scrubbing the hall floor — and she looks up with the exact face he has grieved for half a decade. She survived the wreck. She lost herself entirely, and built a quiet life from nothing rather than return to a man she believed had long since moved on. Now his household, his mother, and all of London stand between a duke who refuses to bury his heart twice and a woman who chose scrubbing brushes over pity. Can he convince her that coming back changed is not the same as coming back ruined? duke romance, regency romance, historical romance audiobook, clean romance stories, romance for women over 50, second chance love story, presumed dead romance, shipwreck survivor romance, duke and housemaid romance, amnesia love story, Cornwall historical romance, forbidden love regency, slow burn romance audio, HEA romance story, sacred romance saga, audio romance novel, romantic audiobook drama, dukes lost fiancee, grief and healing romance, true love returns