The Broken Duke's Forgotten Spring: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (Where Dukes Dare and Ladies Love)

Lady Eleanor Whitmore enters her marriage to the Duke of Ashbourne with quiet resignation, certain that duty has claimed the last pieces of her freedom. Sent to his remote estate, she expects loneliness, restraint and a life arranged by others. Instead, among the gardens she understands better than any ballroom, she begins to discover a purpose that may finally allow her to be seen.

Alexander Hargrove, Duke of Ashbourne, has survived war, grief, and the heavy burden of a title he never wished to inherit. Order is the only thing he trusts, until his gentle new wife begins to disturb the silence he has built around himself. He means to keep his distance, but Eleanor’s quiet strength awakens a longing he has spent years trying to bury.

Bound by a marriage neither chose, Eleanor and Alexander slowly find comfort in the very place they expected only duty. But when fear, pride and the shadows of their pasts threaten the fragile trust growing between them, they must decide whether safety is worth a lifetime of loneliness. Can two guarded hearts learn to surrender before the love blooming between them is lost?

Tropes: Arranged Marriage, Marriage of Convenience, Grumpy/Sunshine, Wounded Duke, Forced Proximity, Slow Burn.

"The Broken Duke's Forgotten Spring" is a historical romance novel of approximately 80,000 words. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.