She’s Been Locked Away for 19 Years — Until The Duke Rode Up to Her Window!

Margaret Ilsley had been in the same upstairs room for nineteen years, and had known for two of them that there was nothing whatever keeping her there. There was a lock. She had understood at three and twenty that the lock was the smallest part of it. What kept her in that room was that no person outside the house knew she existed as a grown woman — and a fact that nobody outside a house knows is not a fact at all. Her step-aunt told the county she was delicate. She had been telling them since Margaret was nine, and in nineteen years not one person had ever had reason to test it. Then a man on a black horse stopped on the road below her window, and looked up, and did not look away — and rode up the drive and asked a servant who she was. He did not rescue her. She spent nineteen years in a room with nine hundred books, and she knew exactly what to do with one question. A full-length historical romance. Four chapters. Slow burn, and it ends exactly how you hope. 🌍 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