The Duchess of Darmound
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She is nobility. She has everything. Everything except... the sense of joy on achieving something all by herself. It's about time she corrected that. Join Lady Rivera Coldmarrow as she sets out to be an independent young woman and quite a contradictory figure in the late 19th century England, a world of absurd (and out-dated) social norms... and perhaps, a world that is starting to think anew.
~A Historical Fiction
By Marinella Forchhammer
All characters, incidents, situations and background depicted in the story are purely products of the author's imagination.
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