SHE HANDED THE LETTER TO A MESSENGER—UNAWARE HE WAS THE DUKE HIMSELF IN DISGUISE
She handed her family's last hope to a stranger in the rain — never guessing the "messenger" she trusted with everything was the cold, grieving Duke himself, hiding behind a plain coat and a false name. When Elinor Hale entrusts a desperate letter to an ordinary courier on a storm-soaked road, she has no idea she has just spoken more honestly to a duke than any woman in England ever has. Drawn back to her cottage again and again under his disguise, Julian Ashworth, Duke of Ashcombe, discovers something he thought grief had destroyed forever — the simple, unguarded feeling of being loved for himself alone. But a secret this large cannot stay hidden, and when the truth comes out, Elinor must decide whether the man who deceived her for weeks was ever truly false at all — or the most honest person she has ever known. A slow-burn Regency romance of hidden identity, quiet devotion, and a love that finally thaws a duke's frozen heart. If you love hidden-identity romance, cold-duke-healing-heroine stories, and Regency-era slow burns full of longing and dignity, subscribe for more full-length historical romance narrations every week. #historicalromance #regencyromance #dukeromance #slowburn #periodromance
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