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Intro. The season was drawing to a close when Alexander Beaumont, Duke of Ashbury, left London to return to his estate. He was said to be as distant as he was remarkable, as sought after for his fortune as for his ancient name. At Ashbury Hall, all was order, silence and duty... until he noticed a young servant whose grace was unusual. Eleanor Hartley should have been just a shadow among the servants. Yet the way she spoke, the way she read secretly in the library, and the way she held his gaze betrayed an education that no servant should have possessed. Between the duke promised to a marriage of alliance and the young woman without a name stood the laws of society... and a carefully concealed secret: that of Eleanor's true birth, recognized before the death of her father, but erased by a stepmother ready to do anything to preserve her inheritance. In Ashbury, love became a danger. 💔👑

Duc Alexander Beaumont

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