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    A Bride for the Charming Duke
    A Bride for the Charming Duke
    A Bride for the Charming Duke
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    A Bride for the Charming Duke

    By Roxie Brandon

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    Having just emerged from mourning following her father's death, Rebecca Harrington is exactly where she wishes to be: an unofficial companion to her aunt. Unfortunately, her ambitious uncle has other plans for her future. He lays down an ultimatum: either Rebecca marries the man of his choosing, or he'll force her sixteen-year-old sister to do so instead.

    To save herself from an unwanted marriage, Rebecca ventures into Robert Sterling, the Duke of Pembroke’s bedroom – and into his power. Now her reputation hangs by a thread and only a hurried marriage can rescue her.

    Is the Duke of Pembroke the heartless libertine the world believes? Or will Rebecca discover unexpected honor in a man notorious for his wild ways? Will their encounter spark a passion that lasts a lifetime?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoxie Brandon
    Release dateApr 30, 2018
    ISBN9780463047989
    A Bride for the Charming Duke
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    Roxie Brandon

    Roxie Brandon is an author of historical and contemporary romance, beauty and fashion books.Her romances range in setting from Medieval times to the Twentieth Century.She loves walks in the countryside and having afternoon tea with family and friends.

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      A Bride for the Charming Duke - Roxie Brandon

      A BRIDE FOR THE

      CHARMING DUKE

      By Roxie Brandon

      Copyright © 2018 Roxie Brandon All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems - except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews - without permission in writing from the author.

      This book is a work of fiction. The characters, events, and places portrayed in this book are products of the author’s imagination and are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

      Chapter One

      Caramel leaves tumbled to life by brisk autumnal notes that roused them from slumber, requesting a last wistful dance before a wintry embrace would claim them.

      Autumn's hand was lying heavy on the hillsides. Bracken was yellowing, heather passing from bloom, and the clumps of wild-wood taking the soft russet and purple of decline. Faint odors of wood smoke seemed to flit over the moor, and the sharp lines of the hill fastnesses were drawn as with a graving-tool against the sky.

      Spiked, black fences surrounded the graveyard almost like it was a prison. The smell of old stone filled the dry air, weeds covering the graves of the dead, loved ones long since stopped visiting. Gravel paths weave through the maze of graves, allowing passers by to pay their respects to the people lined up in the earths embrace.

      Rebecca walked past the heavy gates. As long as she had her mother’s necklace embedded on her chest, a tiny cross, she would be left alone.

      A knitted black scarf hung around her neck loosely and it flew as the billowing wind brushed through her auburn hair. The sun was sinking fast below the horizons, giving her hair more reddish hue.

      Rebecca's eyes were the glimmering color of emerald, sparkling in the light of the morning sun like a fresh sheen of morning dew. And when she lifted her pale face to the sky, emerald shifted into the color of deep ocean shimmering in the sunlight.

      As she looked down at the grave, with her father’s name scrawled across the stone, and mother’s grave not two feet away, Rebecca wished she could just kneel here, and mourn.

      She knelt at the grave, and laid her hand upon the headstone. I love you, father, she whispered. Then she rose and walked across the graveyard.

      After her father had joined his mother in death, Rebecca and her sister Emily had come to live with her uncle’s family, but from the beginning she had felt unwelcome. She knew her uncle and her aunt had only taken them in because they considered it their duty. Rebecca and Emily were, after all, family.

      However, both her aunt and uncle never missed an opportunity to remind them of their status. Rebecca never declined a request, never argued and never questioned her uncle’s authority. And yet, to this day he had never looked at her with affection, nor had her aunt.

      Rebecca was nineteen years old, but Emily was sixteen and she was an only child. Rebecca was like a mother to Emily and she tried to protect her.

      ***

      Oh Lord, she was trapped. Standing in the center of the sun-dappled folly overlooking the rolling hills of her uncle’s estate, Rebecca suddenly realized exactly what was about to happen. Don’t say it. Please don’t say it.

      Miss Harrington, will you consent to be my wife?

      Across from her, Lord Barnet stood perfectly erect, his thick eyebrows raised in polite query.

      Rebecca bit her lip, dismay settling like a brick in her stomach. Or was it dread? Why hadn’t the man listened to her when she had told him in every way possible that she was happy in her situation, and had no plans to change it?

      Better yet, why had she been

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