Her Tiny Dog Barked at a Wolfhound — She Had No Idea Its Master Was the Duke
Hearts of the Regency
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Her Tiny Dog Barked at a Wolfhound — She Had No Idea Its Master Was the Duke...
At twenty-three, Edith Harton has learned how easy it is for a quiet woman to disappear into the background.
The orphaned daughter of a rector, she serves as companion to Ursula, Dowager Duchess of Chasewood. Edith reads aloud, keeps accounts, settles household problems, and spends her evenings studying the books her father left behind—including his unlikely collection on drainage and wet land.
She expects nothing more from life.
Then one morning, while walking across the moor with her tiny brown dog Pip, everything changes.
Pip begins furiously barking at the largest wolfhound Edith has ever seen.
Certain the enormous animal could swallow her little dog whole, Edith steps between them.
Instead of attacking, the wolfhound calmly sits at her feet and rests its massive head against her knee.
Then its owner appears.
Edith assumes he is simply a stranger traveling quietly across the moor.
She does not know he is Augustus, Duke of Chasewood—the very grandson Ursula has just announced must marry before his thirty-second birthday or risk losing Marshwend under the terms of his late father’s will.
Their unusual meeting becomes only the beginning.
Augustus soon discovers that the overlooked companion possesses exactly the knowledge his troubled estate needs. Marshwend’s drainage system is failing, tenants’ futures are threatened, and Edith understands the movement of water because of the books everyone else considered useless.
So they begin working together.
Broken drains, old plans, marshland, tenants, and the looming marriage deadline bring them repeatedly into each other’s company.
Meanwhile, other women have very different reasons for wanting Augustus.
With his birthday approaching, marriage has become less a matter of affection than a race against a legal deadline.
Edith refuses to compete.
She will not become another candidate trying to persuade a Duke that she is worthy of being chosen.
But the woman nobody expected him to notice becomes the one person whose judgment Augustus trusts.
And Pip is not the only animal to recognize it first.
What begins with a tiny lapdog challenging a giant wolfhound becomes a story about an overlooked woman, threatened marshland, an inheritance deadline, practical intelligence, honesty, and a Duke who must decide whether marriage will be another obligation imposed upon him—or the first choice he makes entirely for himself.
💬 Would you trust Pip’s judgment after seeing the Duke’s enormous wolfhound immediately accept Edith?
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Her Tiny Dog Barked at a Wolfhound — She Had No Idea Its Master Was the Duke
Hearts of the Regency
794 views
Her Tiny Dog Barked at a Wolfhound — She Had No Idea Its Master Was the Duke...
At twenty-three, Edith Harton has learned how easy it is for a quiet woman to disappear into the background.
The orphaned daughter of a rector, she serves as companion to Ursula, Dowager Duchess of Chasewood. Edith reads aloud, keeps accounts, settles household problems, and spends her evenings studying the books her father left behind—including his unlikely collection on drainage and wet land.
She expects nothing more from life.
Then one morning, while walking across the moor with her tiny brown dog Pip, everything changes.
Pip begins furiously barking at the largest wolfhound Edith has ever seen.
Certain the enormous animal could swallow her little dog whole, Edith steps between them.
Instead of attacking, the wolfhound calmly sits at her feet and rests its massive head against her knee.
Then its owner appears.
Edith assumes he is simply a stranger traveling quietly across the moor.
She does not know he is Augustus, Duke of Chasewood—the very grandson Ursula has just announced must marry before his thirty-second birthday or risk losing Marshwend under the terms of his late father’s will.
Their unusual meeting becomes only the beginning.
Augustus soon discovers that the overlooked companion possesses exactly the knowledge his troubled estate needs. Marshwend’s drainage system is failing, tenants’ futures are threatened, and Edith understands the movement of water because of the books everyone else considered useless.
So they begin working together.
Broken drains, old plans, marshland, tenants, and the looming marriage deadline bring them repeatedly into each other’s company.
Meanwhile, other women have very different reasons for wanting Augustus.
With his birthday approaching, marriage has become less a matter of affection than a race against a legal deadline.
Edith refuses to compete.
She will not become another candidate trying to persuade a Duke that she is worthy of being chosen.
But the woman nobody expected him to notice becomes the one person whose judgment Augustus trusts.
And Pip is not the only animal to recognize it first.
What begins with a tiny lapdog challenging a giant wolfhound becomes a story about an overlooked woman, threatened marshland, an inheritance deadline, practical intelligence, honesty, and a Duke who must decide whether marriage will be another obligation imposed upon him—or the first choice he makes entirely for himself.
💬 Would you trust Pip’s judgment after seeing the Duke’s enormous wolfhound immediately accept Edith?
❤️ Subscribe for more historical romance stories, Duke romance, intelligent heroines, slow-burn relationships, family estates, and unforgettable characters.
#historicalromance #romancestories #dukeromance #slowburnromance #historicalfiction