The Duke Hadn't Spoken to His Contract Bride in a Year — Then He Heard What His Sisters Called Her
Florentino Aguilar
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On the back stair, Isobel, Duchess of Stainmore, hears her husband's sisters call her Brother's Purchase and mock the thirty thousand pounds her father's debt cost to cancel. She has been married a year, and the Duke has said fewer than forty words to her in all of it. That night he finds her alone in the ruined orangery at midnight, up a ladder, cutting glass with her dead father's diamond, her fingers bleeding and her hands steady.
Every pane in the house was made by her father's Bristol glassworks, a debt the old Duke never paid before he died and left his son to marry off instead, and Isobel re-glazes the orangery alone because nobody will lift a finger for her. His sisters strip her of the housekeeping keys at dinner before eighteen guests while Anselm says nothing and watches her see it. What will he do the next time his sisters call his wife a purchase to her face?
A Regency romance about a glassworks daughter married for a debt, and the cold Duke who finally starts to see her. This is original fiction: every person in it is invented and a grown adult. Subscribe to The Overlooked Duchess for more Regency stories.
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Even so, it was a nice story.
Pretending they were wronged and the duke on top of the injustice marrying Isabelle who had nowhere to go. Treating her with disdain. That is rich.
The duke didn't do her a favour by buying back what was hers to begin with. At least he came to his senses.
I find it a very cruel story with an unsatisfactory ending.
The Duke Hadn't Spoken to His Contract Bride in a Year — Then He Heard What His Sisters Called Her
Florentino Aguilar
6,644 views
On the back stair, Isobel, Duchess of Stainmore, hears her husband's sisters call her Brother's Purchase and mock the thirty thousand pounds her father's debt cost to cancel. She has been married a year, and the Duke has said fewer than forty words to her in all of it. That night he finds her alone in the ruined orangery at midnight, up a ladder, cutting glass with her dead father's diamond, her fingers bleeding and her hands steady.
Every pane in the house was made by her father's Bristol glassworks, a debt the old Duke never paid before he died and left his son to marry off instead, and Isobel re-glazes the orangery alone because nobody will lift a finger for her. His sisters strip her of the housekeeping keys at dinner before eighteen guests while Anselm says nothing and watches her see it. What will he do the next time his sisters call his wife a purchase to her face?
A Regency romance about a glassworks daughter married for a debt, and the cold Duke who finally starts to see her. This is original fiction: every person in it is invented and a grown adult. Subscribe to The Overlooked Duchess for more Regency stories.