'Your Fiancée Is Betraying You — They Come Tonight,' She Whispered to the Duke

Jemima Lane is a quiet kitchen maid at Kirkby Castle, invisible to the fine guests gathered for the Duke's grand winter wedding. Then one night in the old wine cellar she overhears the beautiful Lady Honoria Greaves plotting with her brother to rob the castle with smugglers and flee before the vows. Jemima runs up the back stairs and whispers a warning to Ivo Strand, Duke of Kirkby, but he looks at her coldly and sends her away. At midnight shots ring out by the sea door, and by morning Jemima is in chains, a stolen ruby planted in her apron, facing a magistrate who says a jewel thief can hang. But the cold Duke has been hiding a secret plan of his own, and the hearing in the great hall is about to turn upside down. A clean Regency romance narration of betrayal, courage and a love worth waiting for. duke romance, regency romance, victorian romance, kitchen maid romance, servant and duke, betrayed duke, evil fiancee, framed heroine, castle romance, smugglers romance, historical romance audio, clean romance narration, period drama romance, cinderella romance, rags to riches love, cold duke falls in love, wedding scandal, jewel theft story, false accusation romance, sweet clean romance, audio romance drama, classic romance narration, love saga, duke love saga, happily ever after