'Sir, That Lady Isn't Dead — I Know Where She Is,' the Girl Told the Duke at His Wife's Grave

Celia Brook washes sheets at Holloway House, a gloomy private madhouse on the marshes, and sells violets at the churchyard on Sundays. Behind one locked door lives a quiet grey-haired patient known only as Number Nine, who hums an old song and asks Celia every week if her son has come yet. One Sunday, Celia watches Christopher Fairfax, the Duke of Crowhurst, lay flowers on his young wife's grave. Beside it stands his mother's stone, carved with the first words of that very song. Heart pounding, Celia steps forward and says, "Sir, that lady isn't dead. I know where she is." But the Duke's powerful uncle calls her a liar, the patient vanishes, and Celia is thrown into a cold cell for a theft she never did. Can one poor girl's courage bring a mother home? A clean Regency romance narration about a brave, honest heroine and the Duke whose heart she brought back to life. duke romance, regency romance, victorian romance, clean romance narration, madhouse mystery, lost mother found, duke at the grave, secret asylum, poor flower girl romance, violet seller, wicked uncle, stolen fortune, false accusation romance, historical romance audio, period drama romance, widower duke, brave heroine, sweet clean romance, audio romance drama, love saga, duke falls in love, rags to riches romance, family secret revealed, emotional reunion, happily ever after romance