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Darius Copeland, an American, and now the Duke of Ellings, believes he knows all that is necessary for his new station in life.
Theresa “Tessa” Claxton, self-professed spinster, will show him that there is so much more to learn than memorizing a list of rules.
What they come to realize is that some rules are meant to be broken.
Genre: FICTION / Romance / Regency32 ratings/reviews on Amazon and Goodreas - 4.5 average rating
The Duke of Ellings was failing and it would only be a matter of days, or possibly hours, before he passed. Currently he slept, his breaths shallow, while the rest of the family waited in the sitting room just off the sleeping chamber.
His only child, Claresta, had arrived a day earlier, along with her husband, Donovan MacGregor. They had traveled to Shropshire the moment they had received word of the carriage accident that had claimed the life of her mother and would also claim His Grace, who had lingered from his injuries these past five days.
Now, she waited.
They all waited.
Ellings had never had a son—an heir—and while there had been four younger brothers, only one still lived, Samuel; the only sibling to have fathered sons, the eldest being Darius Copeland, who now kept vigil at the bedside of the current Duke of Ellings.
Darius and his siblings had been pulled from London by the tragic news. He had been happy to leave Town, but not for this reason.
Darius’ father lived in America. Being the youngest, he had been expected to settle into a profession such as the clergy or buy a commission. Instead, Samuel set out to make his own fortune and, in the process, married Miss Catherine Monroe of Pennsylvania and never returned to England.
