"She Wore a Maid's Uniform to the Duke's Ball, Three Ambassadors Bowed When She Entered" | Regency Romance Audiobook

For nine years, Maria Wray has painted every coat of arms at Trenholm Park. The carriage panels. The hatchments. The buttons on the footmen's coats. She has never once set foot inside the house, because the agent who carries her work up the hill has told her that great houses do not wish to see the trade, only the result. She believes him. She has no evidence to the contrary.

Then the Duke of Trenholm summons her to answer for invoices rendered in her name at six times what she was ever paid, and a cracked brown day-book turns that accusation into something far worse for the man who wrote them.

Five weeks later, a parcel of brown paper arrives at her workshop at noon: one gray dress, one white apron, one white cap, and a note saying the servants' door will be open from seven. The invitation the Duke wrote in his own hand never left the house. Maria folds the apron over her arm, walks up the hill, and goes in through the front doors with a tray in her hands, into a room where three foreign ambassadors are about to recognise a face all England has failed to find.

This Regency romance audiobook features a severe Duke undone by competence, a tradeswoman who refuses to perform smallness, and the quiet, devastating power of being the only person in the room who can read what is written on the wall.