"YOUR DAUGHTER WILL DO"—THE DUKE TOLD HER FATHER. SHE OVERHEARD EVERYTHING. THEN SHE RAN… скачать в хорошем качестве

"YOUR DAUGHTER WILL DO"—THE DUKE TOLD HER FATHER. SHE OVERHEARD EVERYTHING. THEN SHE RAN…

Eleanor Ashworth learned the truth about love through a door left carelessly ajar. Standing in the hallway of her family's home, she overheard her betrothed of two years laughing as he explained to her father that without her fortune, she was simply unworthy of marriage—"a woman of no particular beauty" from whom he had narrowly escaped. Two years later, Eleanor has built walls around her heart so thick that nothing can penetrate them. She has refused two marriage proposals, preferring dignified poverty to pretending feelings she cannot summon. The hopeful girl who believed in love died beneath her mother's camellia tree, and the woman who rose in her place expects nothing, hopes for nothing, and tells herself she can never be wounded so deeply again. Then a letter arrives announcing that the Duke of Thornfield—wealthy beyond measure, notably cold, a widower who retreated from society seven years ago—wishes to discuss a matter of mutual benefit. Eleanor cannot imagine what business such a man could have with the ruined Ashworths, but her father's desperate hope is painful to witness. Whatever comes, she vows, she will not allow herself to hope. Some vows are easier to make than to keep. A sweeping Regency romance of walls, wounds, and the courage to love again. Watch now and let us know your thoughts below. This story is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and scenarios presented are purely imaginative and created for entertainment purposes only. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.