💔 SHE HAD SWORN HER HEART WAS DEAD — UNTIL THE DUKE BROUGHT IT BACK TO LIFE

🖤🎩 A YOUNG WIDOW SAT ALONE AT THE WEDDING — UNTIL THE DUKE WHISPERED, “PRETEND YOU’RE MY BRIDE.”

SHE WILL ALWAYS BE THE SECOND CHOICE, HER SISTER MOCKED—UNTIL THE DUKE MADE HER THE FIRST IN LONDON

👑💍 SHE LOWERED HER GAZE AT THE WEDDING — BUT THE DUKE’S TOUCH MADE THE BALLROOM HOLD ITS BREATH

👑GIVE ME AN HEIR AND DISAPPEAR, THE DUKE SAID AFTER THE WEDDING — AND SHE MADE HIM REGRET EVERY WORD

👑 The Marquis Who Refused Love… And Lost His Mind When She Chose Another

SHE PRETENDED TO BE HIS FIANCÉE FOR ONE NIGHT—HE REFUSED TO END THE PRETENSE

🔥 HE SHAMED HER HONOR — SHE STRUCK BACK… THEN LEARNED HE WAS HER FUTURE HUSBAND

👑 After Years Of Disappearance, She Returned - And The Duke Murmured, “I Never Stopped Waiting”

💔 She Was Abandoned By Her Own Family… Until One Mistake From The Duke Altered Her Fate Forever

Wealth And Worth: Examining Class Dynamics In Her Bold Refusal

🎩 She Defied the Duke at the London Opera… and He Claimed Her with a Single Gaze from Afar

🎩❤️ SHE FEARED HER AGE MADE HER INVISIBLE — BUT THE DUKE LOVED HER FROM THE VERY FIRST GLANCE

SHE WORE WHITE TO HIS BALL BY MISTAKE—IN HIS FAMILY, IT MEANS "I ACCEPT"

He Refused Every Bride His Family Offered—Until His Grandmother Forced Him to See Her on the Wedding

💍👑 “WHY WOULD A LADY THIS BEAUTIFUL BE LEFT UNCHAPERONED?”—THE DUKE ASKED, AND HER LIFE CHANGED

💔 HIS AUNT CHOSE A MUTE SEAMSTRESS TO HUMILIATE HIM—UNTIL HE GAVE HER A VOICE THROUGH INK

🥀✨ AFTER YEARS OF BEING UNSEEN, SHE RETURNED TO THE BALL—AND THE COUNT MURMURED, “I KNEW YOU’D COME”

"I CAN HIRE FIFTY LIKE YOU", THE DUKE SAID "DO IT", SHE REPLIED—AND WALKED AWAY. BUT HE WASN'T DONE

💔 Her Sister Cheered at Her Engagement—Then, in Secret, Stole the Duke’s Love and Married Him

💔🥀 THEY SAID SHE WAS “TOO OLD TO MARRY” — UNTIL THE COLDEST DUKE DID THE UNTHINKABLE