The Duke’s Plain Little Wife: a Regency Marriage Redemption Romance With an Overlooked Bride, Jealousy, and a Groveling Duke

When Miss Beatrice Langford accepts the Duke of Ashbourne’s offer of marriage — a practical arrangement between a debt-pressed baron’s daughter and a duke requiring an unobtrusive duchess — she does not expect to feel anything beyond quiet gratitude. And she does not expect him to ignore her quite so thoroughly.

Alexander Westbury, the eighth Duke of Ashbourne, chose Beatrice precisely because she would make no demands: plain, bookish, and agreeably self-effacing, she would manage his household, produce his heir, and leave him in peace. He is wrong on all counts. For when Mr. Julian Hartwell — charming, attentive, and dangerously unmarried — begins to orbit Beatrice with undisguised admiration during a Northamptonshire house party, Alexander discovers that indifference is a luxury he can no longer afford. He married a woman he never troubled to know, and another man has noticed what he did not. Now the duke must decide: will he guard his pride, or will he fight for a wife who has every reason to doubt he is worth the trouble?

Perfect for readers who love: Marriage-of-convenience romances where the hero genuinely grovels, heroines with brains and backbone, witty Regency banter with real emotional depth, and the slow, delicious burn of two proud people finally, completely choosing each other.