SHE CAN'T READ, SHE CAN'T DANCE, SHE'S USELESS." HER FATHER SAID IT TO THE WRONG DUKE

Описание: She can't read, she can't dance, she's useless." That's what Sir Roland Lacey said — at his own dinner table, laughing, pointing at his eldest daughter while trying to impress the most powerful man in the room.

In tonight's Duke of Hearts Romance story, Margaret Lacey has been erased. Not by strangers. By her own father. The man who locked the library when she was twelve. Who pulled her from her governess. Who refused to pay for a dancing master. Who called her useless at breakfast, at dinner, at balls, in the village — so many times the word became her name.

But Margaret is not useless. She has read every book in her father's locked library — all two thousand volumes — through a window, at night, by stolen candlelight, for fifteen years. She has managed his estate accounts since she was fourteen. His best crop yields, his tenant negotiations, his financial survival — all her numbers, presented under his name.

The Duke of Halford has heard those words before. His late wife Catherine died believing she was stupid, because her father told her the same lie. The last thing Catherine ever said was, "I think I could have been clever, if someone had let me." Alexander Wren has carried those words for six years. And when he hears a father say them again — about the quiet woman in the brown wool dress sitting behind the soup tureen — he sets down his fork. He calls in the debt. Twelve hundred pounds. And he takes the daughter her father called worthless.

Not as a wife. As his librarian. Eight thousand volumes. One word: "Read."

What happens when she opens her mouth will break you. What happens after will put you back together.

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