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"THE UGLY ONE ISN'T FOR SALE." HER FATHER SAID IT. THE DUKE SAID "NAME YOUR PRICE."

"The ugly one isn't for sale." That's what Sir Philip Caldwell said — at a charity auction, in front of three hundred people, laughing, while his two pretty daughters stood on the platform and his eldest held their wraps in the shadows. In tonight's Duke of Hearts Romance story, Agnes Caldwell has been depreciated. Not hidden. Not denied. Worse. Everyone knows what she can do. Her father knows. The tenants know. The cook who fed her extra portions for fifteen years knows. Agnes has been running Briarwood estate since she was twelve — the accounts, the dairy, the crops, the tenant leases, the entire operation — while her father dressed her sisters in silk and seated Agnes behind the soup tureen in a borrowed dress that didn't fit. She wrote him three proposals. A drainage scheme at seventeen. A cottage redesign at twenty. A crop rotation at twenty-three. He read one page of the first. Glanced at the second. Put his port glass on the third. She found it the next morning with a wine ring on the cover. He didn't deny she was capable. He just didn't care. Beauty was the currency. Agnes didn't have it. So nothing she built, nothing she calculated, nothing she kept alive with her own hands mattered enough to acknowledge at dinner. Thomas Blackwood, Duke of Ashmore, heard every word from the back of that hall. He knows what it means to be sorted by your face. A burn scar has covered the left side of his jaw since he was fourteen — earned pulling two horses from a stable fire. The world saw the scar and stopped seeing the man. Four estate managers quit in three years because they couldn't bear to look at him across a desk every morning. He crossed the room. He looked at her father. And he said two words that silenced three hundred people: "Name your price." What happens when Agnes arrives at Ashmore Park — with three dresses, a pair of work boots, and the proposals nobody read — will change everything. What she builds on land the world wrote off will prove what she's worth. And the man with the scar who built her a stone bench at five in the morning will prove that being seen has nothing to do with being beautiful. New stories every week. 💬 Where in the world are you listening from right now? Drop your city and your local time in the comments — I read every single one. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to Duke of Hearts Romance for more dark Regency romance stories. #DukeOfHeartsRomance #darkromance #regencyromance #historicalromance #audiobook #slowburnromance #audiostory #relaxingstory #duke #ForcedProximity #RedemptionRomance #victorianromance #romancestory #perioddrama #historicalfiction #audiobook #agegapromance #enemiestolovers #obsessivelove #estateromance #overlookedheroine