The year was 1848, just 11 years since Queen Victoria began her reign. Lady Evelyn Georgiana Louise, daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, was at the precipice of the rest of her life. It was now time for her to marry an eligible suitor that her overbearing mother approved of. Enter the Duke of Devonshire, Edward William Cavendish. He was the one man in the entire universe that held her heart in his hands, and yet with every step he took, Evelyn felt it get crushed just a little bit more. He would be the undoing of her. But could he also be the one to mend the wounds of heartbreak he had inflicted upon her? Perhaps, a fateful masquerade ball could change everything between them, once again...

❝ 𝐷𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❞ 𝐴 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛, 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠- 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠. [𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑃𝑂𝑉] ࿇ ══━━━━✥◈✥━━━━══ ࿇ #1 in 'queendom' - 20.05.2021/22.06.2021 #1 in 'malepov' - 7.08.2021/14.08.2021