'I'd Sooner Lose It All Than Marry Her,' the Duke of Hartsfell Swore — He Proposed by Friday

"I'd sooner lose it all than marry her," the new Duke of Hartsfell swears on his own staircase — never knowing the bluestocking squire's daughter below has heard every word of it. A dead uncle's will has bound a fortune and a lead mine to a marriage neither of them wants, and Georgiana Kemp refuses him before he can even ask, determined to let him keep his pride and lose his inheritance with a clear conscience. But a week of arguments over tenants, drainage, and Vienna turns into something neither of them planned for, until a scheming cousin frames her with a forged engagement, a ruined mortgage, and a summons that threatens to take her home, her name, and her father's honor in one blow. Watch a proud, guarded duke race the clock to prove the truth and claim, in front of the whole county, the one thing he swore he'd never want. A witty, sweeping clean romance of pride undone by love — stay to the very end for the proposal the whole parish witnessed. Subscribe for more duke romance stories every week. #dukeromance #regencyromance #cleanromance #historicalromance #periodromance #enemiestolovers #willandinheritance #bluestockingheroine #regencyaudiobook #sleepstoryromance #victorianromance #slowburnromance #aristocracyromance #truelovestory #happilyeverafter duke romance audiobook, regency romance story, victorian romance, arranged marriage duke, marriage by will romance, forced engagement romance, period drama romance, sleep story romance, bluestocking heroine romance, enemies to lovers regency, duke and squire's daughter, clean historical romance, regency England love story, lead mine inheritance plot, forged engagement letter story, scheming cousin villain romance, duke proposes publicly, witty banter romance regency, proud duke falls in love, mortgage rescue romance, full length romance audiobook, historical romance for women, sweeping period romance, duke of hartsfell story, Derbyshire romance novel, romance audiobook for sleep, love against all odds regency, dead uncle's will romance, inheritance clause marriage plot