The Duke Refused His Wife the First Dance—So She Gave Her Hand to the Captain!

The Duke Refused His Wife the First Dance—So She Gave Her Hand to the Captain! At the Flaxdene autumn ball, in front of the whole county, the Duke of Bramholme refuses to open the dancing with his wife. Dorothea, a physician's daughter who has been a duchess for five cold months, has about three seconds to decide whether to be pitied or to be brave. She chooses to give her hand to Captain Rafe Greer, a weathered naval officer who happens to be her husband's oldest friend, and the scandal begins. But nothing about Hugo Rothwick's refusal is what it seems. As the gossip spreads from Fieldward Court to the cliff village of Torhithe, Dorothea begins to look at her husband the way her late father once looked at a patient, and what she finds changes everything she thought she knew about her marriage. Meanwhile his cousin Aldous Addison has his own plans for the family, a young hothead is being fed lies, and a dawn meeting on Ashbury common is closer than anyone realises. This is a slow-burn regency romance about pride, silence, and the difference between keeping a secret and being trusted with one. It has a sharp-tongued great-aunt with an ear trumpet, a ballroom with a very good floor, and a second dance well worth waiting for. Settle in for a long listen and find out what the Duke could not say aloud. #RegencyRomance #DukeRomance #HistoricalRomance #SlowBurn #DukeAndDuchess #RomanceStory #CleanRomance #AudioStory #RegencyBall #NavalCaptain