The Inconvenient Duchess

The Inconvenient Duchess
Christine Merrill

Dear Cici and Father,I have come to Devon and married a duke. And I'm more tired and hungry than I have ever been in my life. Please let me come home.Compromised and wedded on the same day, Lady Miranda was fast finding married life not to her taste. A decaying manor and a secretive husband were hardly the stuff of girlish dreams. Yet every time she looked at dark, brooding Marcus Radwell, Duke of Haughleigh, she felt inexplicably compelled–and determined–to make their marriage real!

“And do you also like dishonor, to court it so?”

Miranda bowed her head again, no longer able to look him in the eye. It had been a mistake to come here. Her behavior had been outlandish, but she had not been trying to compromise herself. However, in walking to the house she had risked all, and now, if the duke turned her out and she had to find her own way home, there would be no way to repair the damage to her reputation.

He gestured around the room. “You’re miles from the protection of society, in the company of a notorious rake.”

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The Inconvenient Duchess

Christine Merrill

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Contents

Cover (#u824f23cb-a4ba-5d44-83ab-fc95ae39f6fa)

Introduction (#ub2fad80f-305e-574f-a29c-8cae4d1ab98f)

Dear Reader (#u6602b43c-c22b-51e9-8647-80e273f84f44)

Title Page (#u0db20066-abf7-54d9-91a4-ebd22d917b5f)

Contents (#ud3617a2c-ac64-540e-a43c-90b12a9a2804)

Chapter One (#u209c741a-0829-5b6a-b357-b37852579bfd)

Chapter Two (#ubd8f46c9-3832-5f38-8623-53e72e0fc78e)

Chapter Three (#uc562bafa-3852-580b-b5d1-67120128b8e4)

Chapter Four (#u3c25146a-906d-50e0-bfd3-3301ca21aa88)

Chapter Five (#u6cbf7e9c-ce74-5199-bb92-dd6aec4cb441)

Chapter Six (#ua52830c1-9c4c-5e76-8ef0-3f789a8e85b5)

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Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Extract (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

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