SHE MARRIED THE COLD DUKE TO ESCAPE POVERTY… HE SECRETLY MARRIED HER TO ESCAPE LONELINESS

SHE MARRIED THE COLD DUKE TO ESCAPE POVERTY… HE SECRETLY MARRIED HER TO ESCAPE LONELINESS To save her widowed mother and little sister from the bailiff, Jessamy Lynworth accepts a marriage contract unlike any her solicitor has ever seen. The Duke of Kentgill asks for almost nothing: no fortune, no heir, no society. He wants only a wife who is not afraid of silence, and he will keep her at a crumbling dower house a mile from his own door. Jessamy has a secret of her own. For four years she has been painting botanical plates under a borrowed set of initials, and the overgrown walled garden at Gatewell Priory is a gift she never expected. Slowly, through notes left in old herbals and long evenings among the roses, the cold duke begins to thaw. But a smiling neighbour with a grudge, a hot-headed brother and a loaded pistol are all converging on one misty morning in a meadow. A gentle Regency slow burn about pride, loneliness, hidden talent and a marriage that begins as a bargain and ends in a garden. Settle in and listen to the full story. #RegencyRomance #DukeRomance #MarriageOfConvenience #SlowBurn #HistoricalRomance #CleanRomance #WalledGarden #RomanceAudiobook #StoryTime #HappyEnding