The Worst Duke in the World by Lisa Berne

He'd done his duty once and as far as he was concerned those long and dreadful five years of marriage had extracted more than its fair share of duty from him. She believes it's his duty to make sure the long illustrious line of the dukedom lives on. His sister has deemed it necessary for him to marry again to produce a spare to his heir. Little did she know her life was about to change in ways she'd never imagine.Īnthony, the Duke of Radcliffe is a widower with one son. As she stood on the porch of an intimidating vast old house, gazing with considerable uneasiness at the massive door of dark knotted wood and the polished knocker which was just a little above her eye-level she knocked and awaited her fate. If this didn't pan out she had only three pounds and a sixpence to her name.

So with a whisper of a prayer, she packed up her meager belongings and made the trip from Nantwich to Somerset County, England. A link that could find her the one things she needed the most-family. A letter that might help her find the missing link in her family tree. As she'd been packing up the house where she and her Great-grandmother had resided, she came across a letter hidden in an old, crumbling chapbook. After exhausting all her options she was grasping at straws and felt they were all slipping through her hands. All her known relatives were gone-passing from one various ailment after another.

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The Worst Duke in the World by Lisa Berne