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The Duchess of Ash and Thorn

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Parts 41
Time 1h 58m

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Lady Seraphina Ashbourne, eldest of three daughters, has been the darling of the Season for three years-but she's turned down every proposal. She believes in love, not alliances, and no man has stirred her heart.

When Lord Tristan Blackthorn, the illegitimate son of a powerful duke, arrives at her estate with a cold, calculated marriage proposal, Seraphina is insulted. She dismisses him as nothing more than a power-hungry social climber-and makes sure he knows it.

Humiliated and infuriated, Tristan returns to the North with his pride wounded but his resolve stronger. He doesn't want a wife-but he needs one, or risk losing his inheritance to a younger half-brother who is favored by their father.

When Seraphina's father, the Marquess of Ashbourne, falls gravely ill and their family's future is threatened, the only way to secure her sisters' futures and preserve the family name is through the very man she scorned.

Thus begins a reluctant engagement-a forced marriage of convenience between a proud, idealistic lady and a hardened, bitter bastard nobleman.

They despise each other. But fate-and love-have other plans.All Rights Reserved

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ROSES AND GUNS by avy_delusions

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The Duke's Dangerous Wager by TenayaGatrell2

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ROSES AND GUNS

In the world's eyes, she's a prized alliance-a porcelain heir from the infamous Sicilian Arsenic bloodline, draped in silk and silence. But Aurah Lunas Arsenic has been broken long before her wedding veil was placed. Whipped by the very man who raised her, ignored by a brother who once swore to protect her, and now-offered like a sacrificial pawn to the Roman Valezions. To Caezar Valezion, she is nothing but a walking threat. To his twin brothers and their adopted sister Sienna, she's a shadow, unwelcome and distrusted. To the world-they are a power couple. To themselves-strangers behind chained hearts. Aurah stopped believing in love long ago. And the moment she stepped into the Valezion mansion, she knew one thing: this pain would follow her anywhere. Her life, her scars, her silence-they were never hers to keep. But her soul? That was slipping. What happens when a girl too tired to fight keeps trying to fall... And the boy trained to watch her break starts catching her every time? Can Caezar save the girl he swore to never love... before she stops saving herself? --- you can choose this story blind eyed cuz I've written it much better than the last one and the plot here is amazing and mine .🤌🏻🤍💫