They Laughed at Her Gift to the Duke — He Carried It in His Coat for Three Years
He came home from war with nothing left to give the county but his survival — and they thanked him for it with jewels, snuffboxes, and empty compliments he could barely stand to hear. Then a quiet vicar's daughter with no fortune to speak of stepped forward and offered him a plain linen handkerchief, hand-stitched with a single swallow. The room laughed. William Ashford, Duke of Marchmont, said nothing at all. He put it in his coat pocket that night — and it never left him again. Not through his father's funeral. Not through two Seasons of being steered toward a wealthier, more sensible match. Not through three long years in which he told himself, again and again, that he simply hadn't gotten around to setting it down. When poverty and grief bring Margaret Colby back into his household as nothing more than a hired needlewoman, she has no idea the one honest thing she ever gave anyone has been carried, folded and worn soft, against a Duke's heart the entire time. But someone else has noticed exactly how much that small, mocked gift still means to him — and she won't let it stay that way without a fight. A quiet, devastating slow burn about the gift that cost nothing and meant everything. 🎧 Perfect for fans of slow burn romance, Duke romance, class-difference love stories, and quietly devastating historical audiobooks. #DukeRomance #RegencyRomance #SlowBurnRomance #HistoricalRomance #Audiobook #RomanceAudio #ClassDifference #SecondChanceLove
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