The Duke Hadn't Smiled in Ten Years — Until His Housekeeper Argued With Him Over Coffee

The Duke Hadn't Smiled in Ten Years — Until His Housekeeper Argued With Him Over Coffee #darkromance #regencyromance #duque Ravensmere Hall, Yorkshire, October 1814. The Duke of Ravensmere did not require a housekeeper of any particular description. He required a woman who could manage forty-three rooms, twenty-seven servants, and a master who had not raised his voice in ten years and did not intend to begin now. The London agency had sent six candidates in three weeks. He had dismissed five of them within the quarter hour. The sixth had not been sent by the agency at all. She walked the eleven miles from the village in a wet coat and a borrowed reference, and she sat down in his study before he had decided whether to receive her, and she said, before the door had quite closed behind the footman, "I understand your last housekeeper left because of the coffee." This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places, and events portrayed in this story are entirely fictitious and the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The historical setting of Regency-era England serves as a backdrop for a fictional narrative and does not claim complete historical accuracy.