He Offered the Duke a Marriage Deal... After His Pregnant Daughter Was Abandoned

The Duke of Ravenscar came up the drive at Slade Bottom to repay a debt his father had owed since 1801. He found a notice on the gate and a girl of four and twenty in the yard, seven months gone, with her hands to the wrist in a calving cow. Her father owed five hundred and sixty pounds to a corn factor at Marling. The corn factor had taken the farm's paper — and a good deal else besides — and had gone to Bristol in the August without leaving an address. Her father offered the Duke a marriage deal. The Duke accepted. She refused. And then the corn factor drove into that yard with a notice of distraint, and she watched him work for four minutes, and she changed her mind — not because anybody had been kind to her. A full-length historical romance. Four chapters. Slow burn, no rescuing required. 🌍 Comment the country you're listening from — and what time it is where you are. 🔔 Subscribe for a new story every week. #historicalromance #historicaldrama #romancestory