THE DUKE'S ESTATE CALLED FOR A SEAMSTRESS — UNAWARE SHE'D MEND MORE THAN HIS TORN COAT...

When the Duke of Wenlock's housekeeper sent for a seamstress to mend his torn coat, no one expected the woman who arrived. Helena Marsh came to Wenlock House on a cold November afternoon with a contract in her cloak — a contract signed in the duke's own hand. A contract he had never written.

She mended the torn coat. Then she mended the books in the library. Then she mended the household ledgers — and the name of a duke whose own steward had been quietly ruining him. And, in the end, she mended something the duke himself had stopped believing could ever be made whole again: the silence between him and the mother who had walked away from him when he was twelve years old.

Henry Ashford, Duke of Wenlock, was a man known for his discipline and his distance. He had buried his stepmother, lost his mother, and learned to live without softness. He had not asked for a seamstress. The estate had asked for one — but, as he would slowly come to understand, the estate had not really called for a seamstress at all. Fate had.

This is a story about the small mendings that change a life: a back-stitch in three threads, a letter never opened, a name written in the wrong hand. It is a story about a woman who refuses to lie even when a lie would save her, and about a man who must choose between the comfort of an old wound and the courage of a new beginning.

If you love slow-burn Regency romance, quiet heroines who carry steel under linen, brooding dukes who learn to ask the right questions, and the kind of love story that begins not with a glance across a ballroom but with the careful work of repair — pull a chair close to the fire and stay a while.

This is a full audiobook story. Listen with the lights low. Listen with a cup of tea. Listen as if you were the one sitting in the corner of the library at Wenlock House on a November evening, watching the duke read by firelight while a young woman quietly stitched the world back together.

— Adrian's Fireside Stories


Chapters

The Carriage at the Gate
The Torn Coat
A Portrait Above the Mantel
The Books in the Library
The Ledger and the Liar
The Letter Never Opened
The Mother Who Walked Away
A Wedding in the Old Church
A Cradle by the Fire


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