The Countess's Handmaid
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Seraphina is no one-just a maid in the grand estate of a lonely countess. Or at least that's what she pretends to be.
Running from a past no one must discover, Seraphina keeps her head low, her voice soft, and her secrets locked deep. Until one wrong turn in the woods introduces her to a man who feels like danger wrapped in charm.
She escapes. Barely.
But fate doesn't let her forget him.
Because he walks into her life again-this time not as a stranger, but as the Count himself.
Powerful. Handsome. And far too curious.
Now she must play her part under his watchful eye, while the walls close in and her heart betrays her.
She thought he was the threat.
She didn't expect to want him.
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