“Do not flatter yourself, Your Grace. Only a fool would seek to procreate with a petulant, moody, withdrawn, arrogant specimen such as you. I want a family. There’s nothing shameful or inappropriate about that. Until I learn to comport myself as the sister of a duke ought, I have no hope of making an acceptable match. You are a duke. If anybody understands the challenge I face, you do. You have five hundred years of breeding and family history to call upon, while I…”

Oh, this was not at all the soliloquy she’d rehearsed, and Rothhaven’s expression had become unreadable.

He gestured with a large hand. “While you…?”

Althea had tried inviting him to tea, then to dinner. She’d tried calling upon him. She’d ridden the bridle paths for hours in hopes of meeting him by chance, only to see him galloping over the moors at breakneck speed, heedless of anything so tame as a bridle path.

She’d called on him twice only to be turned away at the door and twice chided by letter for even presuming that much.

Althea had only a single weapon left in her arsenal, a lone arrow in her quiver of strategies, the one least likely to yield the desired result.

She had the truth. “While I need your help,” she said. “I haven’t anywhere else to turn, and I am tired of being a laughingstock, an outcast who’s nonetheless greeted cordially at every door. I need your assistance if I’m ever to comport myself in a manner appropriate for a lady of my station.”

Copyright © 2019 by Grace Burrowes

About the Author

Grace Burrowes grew up in central Pennsylvania and is the sixth of seven children. She discovered romance novels in junior high and has been reading them voraciously ever since. Grace has a bachelor’s degree in political science, a bachelor of music in music history (both from the Pennsylvania State University), a master’s degree in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and a juris doctor from the National Law Center at George Washington University.

Grace is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who writes Georgian, Regency, Scottish Victorian, and contemporary romances in both novella and novel lengths. She’s a member of Romance Writers of America and Novelist, Inc., and enjoys giving workshops and speaking at writers’ conferences.

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