I walked into the Duke’s library with nothing but a sharp tongue and a talent for arithmetic, determined to prove my aunt wrong. I’d been given one season to fail—or be thrown out of the only home…
“You have one season to fail. ” Cordelia Ash’s aunt had told her that, but it was the Dowager Duchess of Calmere who delivered the verdict in a cold morning room, with the precision of a woman reading out a sentence. Cordelia, one and twenty, had been jilted four months past by a man who … Read more