A Convenient Match for a Protective Duke: A Clean Historical Regency Romance
By Martha Barwood
He wants a wife, and if she agrees, he’ll get the perfect one, though she doesn’t know it. But he will always keep her safe, even if she can never love him.
A gentleman cannot in all good conscience refuse to help a damsel in distress. Especially not when she’s the loveliest woman he’s ever seen. With hair the color of dark chocolate and eyes to match, her intellect and noble spirit have him entranced. She desperately needs his help . . . and he’s prepared to take extreme measures to protect ...
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He wants a wife, and if she agrees, he’ll get the perfect one, though she doesn’t know it. But he will always keep her safe, even if she can never love him.
A gentleman cannot in all good conscience refuse to help a damsel in distress. Especially not when she’s the loveliest woman he’s ever seen. With hair the color of dark chocolate and eyes to match, her intellect and noble spirit have him entranced. She desperately needs his help . . . and he’s prepared to take extreme measures to protect her and her family.
At the start of the new London Season, the Duke of Newhamptonshire, Clement Rose idly wonders if this will be where he finds a suitable wife, hoping it will stop his mother’s nagging. But no lady appeals until he notices a stunning young woman one night at a ball. Before he gets an introduction, he finds her being attacked by a rejected suitor and sends the man packing. He thought that was the end of it. Unfortunately, the spurned suitor wants revenge, his actions spurring Clement to take radical action—an offer of marriage.
Lady Violet Perry-Jones is in her third Season and is not bothered at all about marrying anytime soon despite her parents’ pleas for her to find a suitor. When she rejects the man they favor and he shows his true colors, she’s driven to accept an unconventional solution to her problem . . . by marrying a handsome duke. Soon though, she’s falling for her husband and wishing they had more than just a marriage of convenience. But they eventually find true happiness by solving a mystery from the past together.
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