The Duke's Unwanted Bride
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Lady Margaret Whitmore has always known her worth: useful, invisible, and entirely overlooked. When duty binds her to Lord Jonathan Ashworth, a war-scarred rake in love with another woman, she asks for nothing and expects the same. But as Jonathan slowly begins to see the extraordinary woman he married, Margaret must decide if a heart carefully built for survival can learn, at last, to hope for love.
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