When Alex Dryden, Duke of Davenport, receives a letter from a disgruntled tenant alleging mismanagement by the land agent who oversees one of his estates, he knows something must be done. Given the antipathy in which his tenants hold him, he decides to investigate in disguise, masquerading as a simple solicitor newly arrived from London to sort out the situation on the duke���s behalf.
Theo Vance has lived and worked the farm that her father leases from the duke all of her life, but with their funds depleting further each passing quarter day, desperate measures must be taken lest they find themselves evicted. When Mr. Dryden arrives at her farm, summoned by the belligerent letter she’d penned to the duke, and claiming that he has come to resolve the issue, she is doubtful that anything will come of it—but her father nevertheless agrees to let Mr. Dryden stay on to conduct his investigation, so long as he also provides much-needed labor on their farm.
It takes little more than a day for Theo to see through Mr. Dryden’s disguise, and when she realizes that she has got a duke playing at being a farm laborer, she can’t resist the impulse to make him miserable as retribution for the suffering the town has endured beneath his neglect. But she finds it harder and harder to keep hold of her resentment, when he’s not at all the kind of man she expected him to be…
Genre: Historical Romance
Theo Vance has lived and worked the farm that her father leases from the duke all of her life, but with their funds depleting further each passing quarter day, desperate measures must be taken lest they find themselves evicted. When Mr. Dryden arrives at her farm, summoned by the belligerent letter she’d penned to the duke, and claiming that he has come to resolve the issue, she is doubtful that anything will come of it—but her father nevertheless agrees to let Mr. Dryden stay on to conduct his investigation, so long as he also provides much-needed labor on their farm.
It takes little more than a day for Theo to see through Mr. Dryden’s disguise, and when she realizes that she has got a duke playing at being a farm laborer, she can’t resist the impulse to make him miserable as retribution for the suffering the town has endured beneath his neglect. But she finds it harder and harder to keep hold of her resentment, when he’s not at all the kind of man she expected him to be…
Genre: Historical Romance
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