The Next Duke
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This is a spin off story from Amelie's Duke. It has over 200 years since the last Duke of Rockholme made news. Being in one of the most prominent families in England and had remained silent for the last fifty years. A great fire broke out in the gallery a couple of years after the next Duke was born. Joseph Conrad James.
Lillian Marie Cortez, a young PhD who was tasked to reopen the the gallery that housed one of the greatest art collection by the tenth Duchess of Rockholme. Unable to shake off the feeling that there was something more than reopening the gallery, Lillian kept finding jewels and other trinkets that belonged to the family. Unaware of the secrets hidden.
Starting at the wrong foot, the tension between the two sky rocketed the moment the two clashed over a diamond set. Will the two be able to set their differences aside and work together and to understand the language of life and love?
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