Take The Handsome One,' Her Father Offered The Duchess—But She Chose The Rejected Suitor No One Saw.

Her father placed two men before her — one golden, admired by every drawing room in London, the other a scholar in a brown coat who arrived at the wrong dinner by accident and looked at a painting above the mantelpiece and said exactly what he saw. Beatrix, Duchess of Harlow, had spent her life accommodating arrangements made on her behalf. This time, she chose differently. A Regency romance set in London's Spring Season of 1814 — slow-burn, emotionally devastating, and achingly real. "Every duchess has a story the world forgot to ask about."