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The Devil's Damsel
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Ongoing, First published Oct 03, 2024
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GENRE: PERIOD ROMANCE, GRUMPY-SUNSHINE ARRANGED MARRIAGE, CARETAKER-HEALING TROPE.

The Duke of Sherards knew fear when he saw it. It was sheer, blind terror that he saw in the eyes of Lady Evangelina when she showed up in the middle of the night at Sherards Manor with the most incredulous proposal: That of marriage. 

"I dare not ask this of anyone else, for I am aware that the minute my father comes knocking at their doors asking for me, they will relinquish me like property back to its rightful owner. I do not ask for your love for I know I will need to earn it. I am here to ask you for mercy, if you have any, for a woman who seeks to fight for herself before her soul is snatched from her body by her own." 

She asked for sanctuary and for him to become her husband and protector. He agreed, not because she was terrified, but because her fear bothered him for the first time in a long time. Or maybe just because he needed a saving grace just as much as she did.
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An early winter blizzard, a dark evening and a wounded man. That was where it all started. Grace takes that phantom in on that tempestuous night, not knowing that the man dying at her doorstep was anything but a wounded passerby. And soon, their roles as a healer and a sufferer interchange, as does their lives_ a storm in the wake of it all, waiting to ruin them all in turn.

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